Department of Photography
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David Adika is a photographer, artist, and Head of the Photography Department at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem. A senior lecturer in the Department of Photography since 1999, he holds bachelor’s (BFA) and master’s (MFA) degrees from Bezalel.
David Adika’s work focuses on the visual and cultural facets of the local Middle Eastern space as a microcosm that reflects his social and family identity. His photographic corpus contains representations of various still life and portraits, blurring the boundaries between abstract conceptual language and lavish visual accuracy. Adika’s visual research explores intimate yet universal biographies, while the photographs unfold familiar and unfamiliar aspects of everyday life and highlight questions of taste and social status.
Adika has had many solo exhibitions in Israeli and international venues, among them Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Art Museum in Riga, Latvia, Bologna MUSEI, Casa Morandi, Italy, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, and Braverman Gallery in Tel Aviv. He has won many awards, including the Minister and the Emerging Artist Prizes from the Ministry of Culture and Sports, and the Jack Nailor Award for Photography. His photographs are included in many collections, such as the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Casa Morandi in Italy, the Knesset and private collections in Israel and abroad.
He lives in Jaffa and works in Jerusalem
Marine Zorea is an interaction designer and researcher exploring the critical and emergent realities of everyday technology. Guided by philosophy of technology and participatory design, her recent PhD inquiry (Kyoto Design Lab) focused on designing domestic devices in a post-human era.
Her work, spanning tangible, audible, and spatial mediums, was exhibited in Japan and internationally with collaborations including All Nippon Airways, Panasonic, and Chanel and her research was published in top venues for Human-Computer Interaction.
Marine received her B.A. in Psychology from Tel Aviv University and an MSc from Kyoto Design Lab (KIT) as a Japanese government scholar, and is an alumna of Stanford University's Design Thinking program.
Alexandra Zuckerman was born in Moscow in 1981. She lives and works in Tel Aviv-Yafo. She graduated with excellence from the Fine Arts Department of Bezalel. She graduated a B.Sc from the Biology Department of Tel Aviv University. She also has a Diploma in Education from the Hebrew University Jerusalem with Bezalel. Her works have been exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad, such as Noga Gallery in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Bar-David Museum in Kibbutz Bar'am, Magasin III in Stockholm, Living Art Museum in Reykjavik, kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga, Galerja Sabot in Cluj-Napoca, Kayu Lucie Fontaine in Bali, Christian Nagel Galerie in Berlin, and Galleri Riis in Stockholm. Zuckerman is a lecturer in the Haredi Branch at Bezalel, as well as an art teacher and educator at Studio Ankori High School in Tel Aviv-Yafo.
Mitra Abbaspour is Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Princeton University Art Museum and a member of the University faculty. Prior to Princeton, she served as an Associate Curator in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art and an Assistant Curator at the California Museum of Photography, in addition to having served as a guest curator for a number of exhibitions at various institutions.
At Princeton, she has curated or co-curated at the Museum include Helen Frankenthaler Prints: Seven Types of Ambiguity (2019), Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking (2018), Making History Visible: Of American Myths and National Heroes (2017).
At MoMA, she led the curatorial branch of an interdisciplinary research initiative that resulted in the print and digital publications Object : Photo: Modern Photographs 1909-1945. She has authored numerous essays on contemporary artists in this field, most recently contributing to monographs of Reza Aramesh, Lalla Essaydi, Dor Guez, Hassan Hajjaj, and Shirin Neshat and has also taught courses both in her specialization, the modern and contemporary Middle East and, general area specializations—Islamic art, modern art, and the history of photography—at The Cooper Union, Hunter College, and Brooklyn College.
