Leeor Ohayon
Leeor is a British photographer and writer based between London and Berlin. When he’s not busy snapping away, he’s writing about a range of topics pertaining to contemporary and historical Mizrahi life. He holds an M.A. in Human Rights and Democratisation from the University of Hamburg & EIUC, along with a B.A. in International History and Politics from the University of Leeds.
“What exactly are you trying to capture? Which community? There just isn’t such a thing as Mizrahi,” my interviewee told me shortly. He had a point; what on earth was I trying to document? When I asked my interviewees to point me toward what they considered to be Mizrahi, I was told repeatedly to “go to the periphery.”