Rafael Ben-Ari (; born 1971) is a Jewish Israeli-born multinational photojournalist, documentary photography travel photographer and camera operator based in Australia. Rafael is known for his on location travel photography from around the world and for his war photography when he was working in photojournalism as a photojournalist and war photographer documenting the war and conflict in the Middle East between Israel and the Muslim Arab world from 2004 till 2012. In 2019 he was named one of the top 10 Best Stock Photographers in the world by Pouted Magazine.
RafaelâÂÂs professional career started (at age 19) at the time Saddam Hussein and his armed forces invaded to Kuwait in 1990 when he served in the Israeli Air Force as Imagery Intelligence Aerial Reconnaissance Photographic Analyst and as Military Photographer for Special Operations Forces (SOF) during The Gulf War.
Rafael's photography work is well recognized and his images appears in a large number of publications, magazines and websites on a daily basis all over the world. Among them: Time Magazine, The National Geographic, Travel + Leisure, Lonely Planet, The New York Times, NBC News, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Rough Guides, DK Eyewitness Travel Guides & Travel Books Fodor's travel guides. Rafael Ben-Ari has exhibited his photography work in Israel, Australia, New Zealand, France, Italy, Mexico, Central America and South America.
RafaelâÂÂs photography work is available via agencies such as Getty Images, Shutterstock, iStock, and Adobe Stock. His images have appeared in publications such as The National Geographic, Travel + Leisure, Lonely Planet, and The New York Times.
Over the past decade Rafael focus on photography and filming documentary photography projects primarily documenting the cultures, landscapes, peoples, nature and wildlife in the Oceania geographical region. Rafael photographed extensively Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands.