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
Architect, Town Planner and Conservation Consultant. The head of the conservation unit, and a senior lecturer -at the Department of Architecture Bezalel. Between his works :Policy and conservation management for Jerusalem municipality, preservation of Zichron Yakov historic center ,Planning policy for Allenby street in Tel Aviv and the visitors center of Masada.
Shmuel is a founding member of Bimkom-"Planners for Planning Rights", Graduated the Technion in Haifa (1978) and studied his Msc at the LSE in London (2006), and finished his PHD (2024) at the Ben Gurion University o, on the subject of: The "Wandering Archive" in Contested Heritage Sites" ,focusing on heritage and conservation of Palestinian towns inside Israel, the test case of Jerusalem Boulevard in Jaffa.
Selected Publications:
-“New Jaffa - Planning Modernity During the Mandate Period Between Henry Kendall and Ali Masoud.” Zmanim 143. (In Hebrew), 2020
-“Urban Planning of Jaffa”, More Than Bauhaus ,The Ar,2chitecture of the White City of Tel Aviv ,AADR,2019
-“Invisible Preservation: On the Relations between Conservation, Destruction and Erasure.” The Israeli Pavilion Catalogue, Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2008
-“Lubya in Lavie Forest: Conservation of the Palestinian Built Heritage in Israel.”
-“Remembering, Forgetting and the Construction of Space Yacobi and Fenster ed. Van Leer, (In Hebrew), 2011
-“Conservation and Oblivion.” Block no 04- Temporal Cities, p 33-36 (In Hebrew), 2007
-“The Politics of roads in Jerusalem” in: 'City of collision - Jerusalem and the Principles of Conflict Urbanism', Edited by: Rieniets Tim and Misselwitz Philip, p. 176-185, 2006
(b. 1985)
graduated from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, in 2014. Two years later, he received a Master of Design in Type and Media from The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Specialising in the field of multilingual type design and typography, Daniel joined independent Tel Aviv-based foundry Fontef in 2017.
Since 2018, Daniel has been teaching Typography and Lettering at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. Among his typefaces is “Abraham אברהם إبراهيم”, released in 2017.
