About

Sharon Pulwer is a cinematographer working between Los Angeles and Tel Aviv. A graduate of the cinematography program at the AFI Conservatory (2023), she has shot over ten short films, including her thesis projects Some Kind of Paradise and The Bullfighter. The films she lensed screened at major international festivals including Tribeca Film Festival, Camerimage, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Boston Film Festival, and LALIFF, among others, and has received a Directors Guild of America Award. She has also worked as a camera operator and second unit DP on two long-form scripted television dramas for yes and Kan 11, set to air in 2026.

Alongside her narrative work, she has shot numerous music videos and collaborated with commercial clients including Hennessy, Toyota, and Sky Princess Cruises.

Her film work is informed by her background in photojournalism. Her photography, focusing on religion, conflict, and women’s rights, has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Rolling Stone, Refinery29 and more. In 2020, she was named a finalist for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award for her project God-Fearing Women, developed during her studies at the International Center of Photography in New York.

for inquireis please email Sharonpulwer@gmail.com

recent publications


Shoutout LA - United Stated

Lifo Magazine - Greece

Publico Magazine  - Portugal

Musee Magazine - United States

The Washington Post - United States

The New York Times - United States

Haaretz - Israel

Refinery29 - United States

TOPIC magazine - United States 

D magazine - Italy


exhibitions & Books

2021

ICP Concerned book & exhibition 

ICP Museum, New York

2020

75 years to the United Nations

Humanity House, Netherlands

2018

"Belonging" photo book

Germany​