At the age of 18, Raphael Avigdor travelled to Europe with a well-known fashion photographer as an assistant. He loaded cameras with film, helped to hold reflection screens, and often shot backup over the photographer's shoulder. It was then that Raphael realized his strong passion for photography. At 19, already on his own, Raphael travelled to the Amazons to shoot the indigenous tribes of Northern Peru, Colombia and Brazil. Ever since then, Raphael has been traveling the world shooting different cultures and portraits, always looking to capture a story in his work.
His most recent trips include 6 weeks trekking in Nepal, arriving to Base Camp at Mt. Everest, and then to Tibet, and the Trans-Mongolian Railroad from Lhasa, Tibet to Beijing, China. Other recent trips include Egypt, Colombia, Cuba, Kiev, Kyrgyzstan, and China. He recently returned from six weeks in Tulum and the Jungles of Belize and in 2016 scaled Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa. More recently he was in Cebu, Philippines where he was asked to be a judge on the panel of the Cebu International Film Festival.
Raphael is a well-rounded person, who pursues careers in writing, music, stone sculpture, and has produced Academy Award winning documentary films. He speaks 6 languages fluently. He a Samba Drummer often performing with BOOM samba school. Raphael resides in
Southampton, N. Y.
