Daniel Rolider is an independent photojournalist whose work focuses on the relationship between humans and their environment through social and cultural prisms. Born and raised in Kiryat Tivon, Israel, he began his career after completing three years of mandatory military service in the Navy, where he served as a boat mechanic and instructor for marine operation systems. Since then, he has photographed and produced several long-term projects in the Middle East, the US, and Europe, while working as a freelance contributor for various publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, ESPN, the Smithsonian Magazine, Stern, Getty Images, Die Zeit, Libération, NZZ, Deseret Magazine, and Haaretz. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in the US, China, Europe, and Israel.
In 2018, Rolider collaborated with the Inside Out initiative of the French artist JR, creating a portrait series of the Jewish and Muslim communities in his hometown and the neighboring town, Basmat-Tivon. This project was exhibited as a site-specific art installation at the Sheikh Abreik Festival and was covered by the Israeli Kan News channel. In 2019, he graduated from the International Center of Photography’s Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism program and attended the Eddie Adams Workshop. The same year, he produced a long-term project about the carriage horses of New York City, which was published in National Geographic, awarded in the PDN Photo Annual, and shortlisted for the Alexia Foundation Student Grant. In 2020, he was nominated for the Joop Swart Masterclass of the World Press Photo, shortly before finishing a three-year project on the agriculture of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. This project was later developed into a photo essay for the Smithsonian Magazine.
After residing in Brussels and New York for two years, Rolider returned to his home country and has covered current events and in-depth features ever since. Such reports include five election campaigns (2019-2022), the Balfour Protest wave, the Palestinian shepherds communities in the Jordan Valley following Trump's "Deal of the Century" annexation plan, the Eritrean asylum seekers community in Haifa, the riots between Jews and Israeli Arabs during the Unity Intifada, and the ongoing Israel-Hamas War.
