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
Tal Mor Sinay is an independent designer, head of the ‘About Design’ track and lecturer at the M.Des Program of Industrial Design at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem and at the Industrial Design program and the Masters of Design Innovation and Technology at RMIT University, Melbourne Australia between 2016-2020. He is about to complete his PhD from RMIT researching informal commemorative practices. He uses Project based research methods (PBR) within the Industrial Design fields and is currently involved in research that looks at the intersection of design and primary school education. He holds a bachelor B.Des (magna cum laude) from 2006 and a master M.Des from 2009 at Bezalel academy.