Shlomo Narinsky

Shlomo Narinsky (1885–1960) was an Israeli photographer who was born in the village of Abyan, at the time part of the Russian Empire. He studied painting in Moscow as a child, and studied photography in Berlin and Paris in 1904–1905. He briefly returned to Russia after finishing his studies, but immigrated to Palestine in 1906 to open a photography studio in Jerusalem called "Photographic Unity" with Yaakov Hotimsky. While he was there he made a postcard collection of Palestine. Narinsky's photography was influenced by the works of 19th-century European photographers. When World War I came Narinsky was exiled to Egypt where he worked in photography in Alexandria and then in Cairo. He moved to Paris in 1932 and opened another photography studio. In World War II he was interned in the detention camps in Saint-Denis and Drancy and was released in 1944 as part of a prisoner exchange. He returned to Palestine and settled in Kibbutz Ein Harod.