Edward Kaprov’s photographs are fully charged by emotion and expressions.

The human aspect plays a dominant role in Kaprov’s photographs.

When Edward creates a photograph, he synthesizes different genres framed on his personal esthetic taste. 

Kaprov’s mission is for his viewers to feel the same level of excitement and emotion as he does in creating the image.

“Photo Journalism”, Kaprov says, “is like a mirror of society…no…actually its like a dirty puddle.  If you view it from above, you’ll see right through the water and only see the mud.  If you squat, however, you’ll catch the reflection of the blue sky. It really all depends on the angle…the point of view.”

Edward Kaprov, was born (1975) and grew up in Russia, where he grew up under Gorbachev and the slogans of perestroika and glasnost' (publicity), where he witnessed the collapse of the great Soviet empire. Kaprov immigrated to Israel in 1992, at the volatile period between the Iraqi missiles of the first Gulf War (Desert Storm) and the failed “peace” negotiations with Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat, which was accompanied with more bloodshed.

After 3 years of national military service, Kaprov saw photography as a way to express some of his feelings and experiences.

During his two years studying photography, Kaprov worked for Maariv, one of Israel’s best selling daily newspapers and began his work with the Israeli Geographic Journal.

Kaprov specializes in photojournalism, specifically documenting social, humanitarian, cultural and religious issues.  He spares no effort and fears no hardships to get his story told in his photographs.                                                                                                

To document the life in Russia’s north, away from the lights of Moscow, Kaprov trekked hundreds of kilometers by foot across the barren taiga region, through Stalin’s now abandoned Gulags. He met with the rarely documented gold miners, deer herdsman, and whale hunters of the Russian artic circle and experienced the massive undertakings of steel workers in a metallurgy plant in the Ural Mountains.

To document the sometimes forgotten complexities and diversity of the Holy Land, Kaprov documented the lives of the Armenian quarter in Jerusalem, the Samaritans of Mount Gerizim, the ritual sacrifice of the Bedouins.  In MountSodom, Kaprov descended to the lowest point on Earth with speleologist (cave studies).   With famed stuntman Sergey Klimkin, Kaprov saw the Earth from the sky. One cannot mention the holy land, of course, without covering the complicated Israeli-Palestinian conflict, where Kaprov documented the controversial Security Fence/Wall and lived with Israeli reserve soldiers.

One of Edward’s most lasting impressions was documenting the tragedy of Beslan and the orphan children of Chechnya.  Sometimes, only a photograph can convey all the emotion of an event. Beslan was such a place.

 Edward has worked with Israel’s biggest newspapers including the business daily Globes, as well as the best selling Haaretz newspaper and Yedioth Aharonot newspaper. His features have been published by the National Geographic, GEO, and the Russian Newsweek as well as other publications.