Erieta Attali has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architectural Photography at Columbia University, GSAPP since 2003. Attali is also currently an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Architecture in Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and, as of 2018, was named research fellow at The Academie d’ Architecture in Paris, France.
She has been a Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) Faculty of Architecture, The Catholic University of Chile, School of Architecture, the Royal Danish Academy of Arts in Copenhagen, Mackenzie University in Sao Paulo, Architectural Association in London, RMIT in Melbourne, University of Tokyo, and University of Sydney amongst others. Attali studied photography at Goldsmiths, University of London, and she continued her studies as a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation, Columbia University in NYC with the support of Fulbright Foundation and Waseda University, Tokyo with the support of Japan Foundation. She has a Ph.D. from the School of Architecture & Design, RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
Attali began her photographic career in 1993 as a landscape and archeology photographer. For over ten years she photographed excavation sites and archeological findings specializing in the documentation of ancient painting under earth tombs with the use of UV and IR radiation.
In parallel with her past practice as an archaeology photographer, she photographed landscapes in different parts of the world. Her pictures have been published and exhibited internationally. Her work has been supported by prestigious institutions, such as Fulbright Foundation, Japan Foundation, Graham Foundation, Dreyer’s Foundation, Norwegian Embassy in Copenhagen, Danish Arts Council, and Chilean Ministry of Culture culminating in numerous exhibitions and publications. During the past 20 years, Attali has been preoccupied primarily with architectural photography, both as a profession and as a fine-art photographer. Her architectural work expands from Europe to Americas and from Asia to Australia.
Attali together with Kengo Kuma published the photography monograph titled Glass | Wood, Erieta Attali on Kengo Kuma by Hatje Cantz Verlag (Berlin, 2015). Her forthcoming monograph titled Periphery | An Archaeology of Contemporary Architecture with contributions by Wolf-Dieter Heilmeyer and Eve Blau will be published by Hatje Cantz Verlag and will be presented in Paris Photo in November 2018.
