BIOGRAPHY
Loli Kantor is a fine art and documentary photographer based in Fort Worth, Texas.
Born in Paris, France and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel and Buffalo, New York. She has a keen interest in cultures and community.
Kantor’s current project portrays the disappearing population of Holocaust survivors and their lives within the vanishing shtetls (small towns) of Eastern Europe. She also focuses on the reemergence of Jewish life and culture in Central and Eastern Europe. As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, she brings a deeply personal interest, as well as unique sensibility to this body of work. Entitled There Was a Forest her project explores the varied layers and strengths of a community that has survived shattering historical and cultural experiences.
Kantor’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States and internationally in China, Ukraine, Poland, and Czech Republic. She has been invited for a solo exhibition at the 2009 Lishui International Photography Festival in China this past December at which she received an award of excellence, and will be an exhibiting artist at the 2010 FotoFest in Houston, Texas. Her work is included in the collections of the Lishui Photography Museum in China, Lviv National Museum in Ukraine, the Drohobych Museum in Ukraine, the Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado, the City Center Library in Fort Worth, Texas, and numerous private collections in the US and abroad.
Kantor works in B&W film and prints in traditional gelatin silver and platinum / palladium mediums. She is also a skilled digital photographer and fine art printer.
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