Landscape · Night · Wildlife, worldwide

YANIV BEKERMAN

The world, held still long enough to see it.

Mt. Shasta, Milky Way, Mt. Shasta, California, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman
Mt. Shasta, Milky Way · Mt. Shasta, California

Every frame is hours of waiting: for the light, the tide, the bear to look up. Made in the field, from Alaskan rivers to desert canyons, and printed to last a lifetime.

Death Rays, Death Valley, California, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman
01 / 12 · Desert

Death Rays

LocationDeath Valley, California

Black Bear with Salmon, Anan Creek, Alaska, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman
02 / 12 · Wildlife

Black Bear with Salmon

LocationAnan Creek, Alaska

Ad Deir Through the Cave, Petra, Jordan, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman
03 / 12 · Places

Ad Deir Through the Cave

LocationPetra, Jordan

Palouse, Palouse, Washington, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman
04 / 12 · Mountains & hills

Palouse

LocationPalouse, Washington

Minnehaha Falls in Ice, Minneapolis, Minnesota, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman
05 / 12 · Forest & water

Minnehaha Falls in Ice

LocationMinneapolis, Minnesota

Garden of Eden, Arches National Park, Utah, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman
06 / 12 · Desert

Garden of Eden

LocationArches National Park, Utah

Fire Wave, Valley of Fire, Nevada, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman
07 / 12 · Desert

Fire Wave

LocationValley of Fire, Nevada

Haystack Rock Through the Trees, Cape Kiwanda, Oregon, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman
08 / 12 · Coast

Haystack Rock Through the Trees

LocationCape Kiwanda, Oregon

Elephant, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman
10 / 12 · Wildlife

Elephant

Under the Pier, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman
11 / 12 · Coast

Under the Pier

Mt. McLoughlin Star Trails, Oregon: star trails circling the night sky over Mt. McLoughlin and its reflection in the lake, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman
Mt. McLoughlin Star Trails · Oregon

Midnight. The shutter opens.

The Earth turns fifteen degrees an hour. You can't feel it.

Nothing moves but the sky. The mountain holds perfectly still.

The photograph. Every trail exactly where the sky put it.Collect a print

Playback · every real trail, grown along its own arc

The collections

71 frames, seven ways in.

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  1. 01 Night Hours of sky, held in a single frame. 09 frames Wrath of Zeus, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman
  2. 02 Desert Stone, heat, and the shapes wind leaves behind. 13 frames Horseshoe Bend, Page, Arizona, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman
  3. 03 Coast Where slow water turns to silk. 13 frames Marshall's Beach, San Francisco, California, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman
  4. 04 Forest & water Old trees, falling water, green light. 10 frames Magnolia Oaks, Charleston, South Carolina, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman
  5. 05 Mountains & hills High places, and the land that rolls between them. 06 frames Maroon Bells in Winter, Aspen, Colorado, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman
  6. 06 Wildlife Patience, pointed at something alive. 09 frames Brown Bear in the Current, Anan Creek, Alaska, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman
  7. 07 Places Cities, temples, and the light that finds them. 11 frames Manarola at Sunset, Cinque Terre, Italy, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman
Balandra Sea Cave, Balandra, Baja California Sur, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman

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Limited editions · 55 per image · never reprinted

Collect the work

Natural Bridges, Milky Way, Samuel H. Boardman Corridor, Oregon, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman
Horseshoe Bend, Page, Arizona, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman
Antelope Canyon, Antelope Canyon, Arizona, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman
Lago di Carezza, Dolomites, Italy, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman
Death Valley Tree, Death Valley, California, photograph by Yaniv Bekerman
Horseshoe Bend as a face-mounted acrylic print, shown at an angle so the glossy surface catches the light

Edition of 55 · hand-signed

The print itself

Light, trapped in acrylic

Light enters the surface, becomes trapped inside optical-grade acrylic, and the photograph appears to glow, almost holographic, from within. No ink on canvas. The same museum-grade format hanging in galleries worldwide.

Process
Face-mounted acrylic · 1,200 DPI · 16-bit
Paper
Proprietary photographic · iridium particle layer
Acrylic
TruLife® · anti-reflective · 99% UV block
Finish
Floats 1.5″ off the wall · arrives ready to hang
Edition
55 per image · never reprinted
Included
Hand-signed certificate of authenticity

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Yaniv Bekerman doing a handstand on the salt flats at sunrise
The photographer, off duty

About

I wait in the dark so you don't have to.

I'm Yaniv Bekerman, a landscape, night and wildlife photographer. I've been making photographs since 2004, and somewhere along the way I stopped chasing light and started waiting for it: for the Milky Way over the Pacific, for a bear to lift its head in an Alaskan river, for the last minute of sun on a desert canyon.

A long exposure compresses time the way memory does. Minutes of moving water become silk. Hours of turning sky become arcs of light. The work is made in the field, wherever the light is worth the wait.

My work is exhibited and collected at the Del Mar fine art fairs in California, and every print is produced in an edition of 55: face-mounted acrylic, signed, and never reprinted.

For the trade

Working with designers

  1. 01

    Trade pricing

    Reduced rates for verified design professionals, on every edition and size.

  2. 02

    Custom room mockups

    Send a photo of your client's room and receive a photorealistic preview with the print in place within 48 hours, free.

  3. 03

    Commission work

    When the existing editions don't fit the brief, I take a limited number of commissions each year.

  4. 04

    Installation guidance

    Lighting, hardware, and viewing-distance recommendations for every piece.

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Every collection starts with a question.

Ask about an edition, request a room mockup, or enquire about trade access. I answer everything personally, usually within a day.