Yoav Litvin is a storyteller, photographer and doctor of neuroscience. His incisive political analyses and candid interviews with radical leaders, thinkers and creatives have been featured in a wide range of media outlets such as Truthout, Salon, Yes! Magazine, Common Dreams, Al Jazeera English, The Laura Flanders Show, Eye Magazine, Mother Jones, Huffington Post, Monthly Review, Roar Magazine, Jadalliya, The Conversation and Counterpunch.

Yoav’s photography book Outdoor Gallery – New York City (Gingko Press, 2015) won the Independent Publisher’s Book Award in the Regional Northeast category. His second photo book 2Create – Art Collaborations in New York City (Schiffer Books, 2016) was awarded the American Design Award and nominated for numerous publishing, photography and graphic design awards. Yoav has published scientific research articles and literature reviews on the neuroscience of emotion in a host of academic publications in the US and Europe.

Yoav is the Vice President at the Whatcom Peace and Justice Center.

“Litvin succeeds, not only because of the breadth of styles his photographs show, but also because of the richness of the stories behind the paint and stencils.”

Martin Colyer, Eye Magazine

“There is no museum fee, no gallery cover or pressure to purchase; there isn’t even an internet or cable fee. It is truly for the public and always will be as long as there are artists looking for such a canvas. Yoav Litvin’s marvelously conceived book is testament to this and the artists included therein.”

Ron Jacobs, Counterpunch

“Litvin is not willing to cede the art to self-interested upstarts. He created Outdoor Gallery to keep his ideal of the medium alive”

Steven Heller, The Atlantic

“It’s the variety and personality, the crazy and the unique, in Litvin’s portraits that make his book special”

Jenna McLaughlin, Mother Jones

“Thought provoking, comprehensive and aesthetically pleasing, Outdoor Gallery presents hundreds of street art photographs, accompanied by interviews, featuring more than forty artists”

Houda Lazrak,  Streetart NYC