Mikhail Levit

Mikhail Levit (born April 13, 1944) is a Soviet-born Israeli photographer and pictorialist.
Biography.
Mikhail was born in 1944 during the World War II. At that time, his family was in evacuation in Uzbek Samarkand. Soon the family moved to Cherkasy, where Mikhail Levit lived the next 50 years of his life.
He studied at the Cherkasy Pedagogical Institute. Photographing carried away while serving in the Soviet Army. He started his way as a journalist photographer and in a very short time was recognized as a professional.
Participant with numerous exhibitions, from Singapore, to a solo exhibition in the United States. There were many exhibitions in Europe.
In the 1990s, he was hired to work in Israel, where his eldest daughter already lived. After a series of successful exhibitions remained on a permanent residence. Lives in Ma'ale Adummim.
A most famous Mikhail Levit's series of photographs "This is Me, God, this is Me..." is dedicated to people praying at the Western Wall of Jerusalem.