ABOUT EUGENE

Eugene was born in New York City.

Though his childhood hobbies included breeding guppies and performing magic, he didn’t discover his passion for photography until backpacking solo through Europe and the Middle East after university - the camera his travel companion.

Eugene learned his trade totally 'on the job' in a bustling NYC commercial studio. It was during those 4 years, that he acquired techniques specifically in still life and interior photography. He opened his own studio in Soho, NYC, and progressively was awarded accounts shooting for brands such as Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Godiva with regular editorial projects for Cosmopolitan & New York Magazine. After shooting in NYC for a decade and starting a family in his native Long Island, he realized the time was right to pursue another passion. So he packed up his family and his business to live in Israel, where a piece of himself always resided -where that backpacking journey first began.

It was in Israel where Eugene was able to combine his two greatest loves. Love of this land's ancient history and his love of photography. As he captures people celebrating a Wedding or Bar Mitzvah at The Western Wall (Kotel) or as he climbs Masada for the 200th time with a new tour group, he gets to capture his clients falling in love with his historic homeland and relive his own experience of falling in love with Israel and capturing all those special moments, over and over again.