Amit Bar was born 1950 in Kibbutz Kfar Hamaccabi, Israel, where he lived until 1988. As a kibbutz-member he was not able to take a complete study at an art-college. Therefore he followed evening-lessons drawing for many years. In 1984 he finally got the permission to study creative art at the university. His study at the university of Haifa was combined with Comparative Literature and took three years. He have learned there a lot about various forms of Creative Art. As follows, he decided to dedicate his interest on photography. Since 1988 he lives in Doetinchem, The Netherlands, and works as a freelance-photographer and painter. In his commercial work he takes photographs for a stock agency and makes commissioned work. Wishing to combine his photography with drawing and painting, he began to mix them in his artistic work.