Heidi Levine, Author at The GroundTruth Project

Heidi Levine

Heidi Levine is an American freelance photojournalist based in Jerusalem. She has worked as a professional photojournalist since 1983, starting as a staffer with the Associated Press in Israel, then with French photo agency Sipa Press in 1993. Over the course of her photojournalism career, Levine has covered the most critical moments in the Middle East including the revolutions in Egypt and Libya, the crisis in Syria, the Israel-Lebanon war, and the numerous conflicts in the Gaza Strip.  She has brought frontline action and behind-the-scenes human stories to the world’s major press outlets. Her photographs have appeared, often as cover stories, in numerous international publications including Time, Stern, Focus, Paris Match, L’Express, Newsweek, Time, The New York Times Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, Amnesty International, Forbes Magazine, and more.  She has won a myriad of awards for her photographs of conflicts and an Emmy nomination in 2012. She was honored with the inaugural Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award by the IWMF in 2015.

TEL AVIV — I’ve traveled the world on photo assignments, but to document how Israelis celebrated the first night...

Apr 10, 2020

Heidi Levine

Documenting a Passover under lockdown, within 100 meters of home

The view from Gaza as US moves embassy to Jerusalem

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