Moses Hacmon


Hacmon studied cinematography and fine art at the Avni Institute of Art and Design and attended the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. In 2006, he completed his Bachelor of Architecture, with the AIA honors award, from the Southern California Institute of Architecture.[2]

Faces of Water was Hacmon's first project that was released in 2013.[3] It is the debut of his technique that captures water's invisible forms.[4] Kyle VanHemert of Wired says "Hacmon worked out a technique involving a special type of film with a layer of liquid that records the movement of the water itself. The film leaves Hacmon with a full-size negative, which he then develops into pictures like the ones here–an analog process from start to finish."[5]

Hacmon was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and moved to the US in 2002. He completed a Bachelor of Architecture with AIA honors, from Southern California Institute of Architecture.[6] Hacmon married Trisha Paytas in December 2021.[7] In February 2022, Paytas announced that she was pregnant.[8] The couple later welcomed their first child in September 2022.[9]


Hacmon's series Faces of Water being exhibited at Joshua Tree National Park in 2015 at The Joshua Treenial.