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
Type designer and Graphic designer, owner of ‘Hatayas’ studio. specializes in branding and type design.
Partner at ‘Hagilda, Type Designers Cooperative.
Lecturer in the Department of Visual Communication.
Meirav holds a bachelor's degree with honors from the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel 2000
winner of the Mike Pelheim Typography Award and the Hermann Struck Print Prize.
Winner of the Design Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture, (2006)
In 2007 ‘Hagilda’ entered The I.D. 40
40 Design Collectives from around the world.
Among the fonts he designed: Raanan, kartiv, The smoker, A glass of milk, Man and The young technician.
Studio's clients: most of the media companies and design and advertising offices in Israel.
His works have been exhibited in a variety of exhibitions, including:
Holon Design Museum 2012
Petach Tikva Museum 2006
Lecturer and researcher in the fields of Museology and Visual Culture.
Geologist, specialized in science education and museums and the Visual Culture of Science.
PhD. Museum Studies, University of Leicester
Dr. Naomi Meiri-Dann
Art historian and Visual Culture researcher.
Her realms of specialization range from Medieval Art (mainly Italian); Architecture of memory and commemoration (mainly in Israel); Interrelations between religious art and secular culture` and issues concerning encounters between “high” and popular cultures.
Naomi teaches at the Departments of Visual and Material Culture (including the B.A. program), as well as the Master in Policy and Theory of the Arts and the M.Des. Program in Visual Communication.