Department of Photography
המחלקה לצילום
قسم التصوير الفوتوغرافي
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
Ifat Finkelman (b.1972) is a Tel Aviv based architect and a senior lecturer at the Architecture Department at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, where she also serves as the head of the foundation studies. She completed her BArch Cum Laude (1998) and MSc (2010) at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa and continued her graduate studies at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA), London.
Her research thesis Anatomy of Space and Body: the Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation (EWMN) in the context of the Post-war Architectural Culture (2010), examines EWMN within the context of architectural discourse as a method and system for representing and mapping data about spatial relations and movement.
Finkelman was awarded the Azrieli Foundation Fund for young researcher (2010), the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Independent Scholar Fellowship (2011), and the Rechter Award for Young Architects (2016) for designing the Youth Wing courtyard at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2014).
She was co-curator of the Israeli Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (2018), and chief-editor of the book that accompanied it: In Statu Quo: Structures of Negotiations (Hatje Cantz, 2018).
Film director and cinema studies scholar, lecturer at the Screen-Based Arts Department.
Graduate of the Sam Spiegel Film School with honors. Freidenberg holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the Department of Linguistics at the Hebrew University. His research focuses on the linkage between historical linguistics and the development of the filmic craft, specifically targeting the syntax and semantics of film.
He is currently writing his doctoral dissertation on film language and media archeology - a comparative study of visual languages such as ancient Egyptian and cinematography.
Friedenberg wrote for archival film projects of the Jerusalem Cinematheque, 'KAN' - Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation and the Israeli audio-visual collection of Harvard University. He programmed world cinema selection for the international film festivals of Rome, Hamburg and Jerusalem. Freidenberg is the CEO and Founder of Jerusalem Filmmakers Guild.
His short film Guided Tour has won many international awards and is currently developing his first full-length feature film.
