Hadar Bracha is an Israeli photographer who studied photography at the Musrara School of Art and Society in Jerusalem. Her work examines landscape as a meeting point between natural beauty, human intervention and environmental vulnerability.

For her 2009 graduation project, Bracha photographed the area surrounding Metzoke Dragot, overlooking the Dead Sea. Rather than presenting the desert as an untouched or picturesque landscape, she created atmospheric, almost apocalyptic images that reflect the region’s ecological fragility and gradual transformation. Her photographs balance stillness and unease: the monumental terrain appears visually seductive while also carrying a sense of disappearance and impending loss.

Through this tension between the sublime and the endangered, Bracha encourages viewers to reconsider familiar Israeli landscapes not as permanent backdrops, but as living environments undergoing irreversible change.