Ori Gersht was born in 1967 in Tel Aviv and is a renowned fine arts photographer and professor of Photography at The University for the Creative Arts in Rochester, UK.

With a B.A in Photography, Film and Video from Westminster University, London and an M.A. in Photography from the Royal College of Art in London, his work has been exhibited widely in museums and galleries worldwide including the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Tate Modern in London.

Artistically, Ori engages far reaching themes of life, death, violence and beauty. His work transcribes images of sites with historical significance such as the Judean Desert, Sarajevo and Auschwitz into symbols of psychological disruption. These scenes may seem ordinary just as they are, but the artists' focused treatment brings forward an emotional resonance of events that once transpired in these sites. The result often evokes a sense of violence and more significantly, the ghosts of war – refugees.

The Landscape is a persistent idea in Gersht's work, as a place, an idea and an art historical figure. His work may be compared to paintings in their display from the unhindered access of his photographs, with no Plexiglas separating the surface from the viewer, to the frames surrounding the monitors on which the films are played. Furthermore, much of his works recall Romantic portrayals of the sublime, touching on previous patterns in photography, such as the breathtaking vistas of Andreas Gursky and Sally Mann's landscapes of the American south, as well as painting, bringing to mind works by Mark Rothko and J.MW Turner.

In Gersht's still life series, he discusses the relationships between photography, technology and optical perception at a pivotal moment in photography history as digital technology threatens to bring on a crisis at the same time promising a breakthrough. Research into early photography history is combined with theoretical discourse creating photographic images and films that blow-up the genre of still life as the beautiful and destructive results are captured with cutting edge technology.

Gersht's photographs and films are a meditation on life, loss, destiny and chance. His work hints to the catastrophic violence of events such as the French Revolution, The Spanish Civil War, the Bombing of Hiroshima and even the suicide bombs that Gersht experienced during his childhood in Israel.

Ori Gersht is represented by Angles Gallery in Los Angeles, CRG Gallery in New York, Mummery + Schnelle Gallery in London and Noga Gallery in Tel Aviv. In 2012, Gersht's show "History Repeating" was mounted at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and "This Storm is What We Call Progress" was shown at the Imperial War Museum in London.