Jenny Rafalson (b. 1986, former USSR) is a photographer and video artist living and working between Chicago and Tel Aviv. Graduated from School of the Art Institute of Chicago( MFA 2018-2020), and from Hadassah College Photography and Communications (BFA 2009-2013).
Rafalson’s artistic practice is driven by her distinctive immigration archive. She photographs subjects that have strong ties to her personal history as a foreign in Israel and in the US, such as daily moments, memories and events, which she appropriates and recreates. She works on the border between directed studio work and documentary photography that aims to perpetuate a brief moment of memory or nostalgia. She mixed both and integrated images such as landscape from conservatories and invasive plants inspired by family stories and interviews she made with immigrants in Chicago. Rafalson uses photography and a video, to look into her place in the immigration chain in both countries.