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
Architect, lecturer and researcher, founder of inSIDEout Architects
Motto
Design like You Give a Damn!- Motivating change through architecture.
Responsibility for vulnerable communities, totality in design, proactivity, independence.
Questioning and researching the seam between inside and outside, either spatially, or socially and professionally. Meaning- work both from the inside out, and from the outside in, as a dynamic creative process of learning-working, which pushes the boundaries of the architectural practice.
Committed to a humane, sustainable and critical approach, in the rethinking of CONSERVATION, by developing the concept of "conservation with a lower-case c'", which challenges conservative formalistic approaches.
Selected CV
Research "Towards Conservation with a lower-case c' - Ajami, Jaffa Case Study" (Technion, 2014)
Water Tower Renewal & conservation 2010-2020
1st prize - international competition for alternative planning for Ein Hud -"An Existence of exile" was presented worldwide (AIA Istanbul 2005, Rotterdam Biennale 2007, Venice Biennale 2008)
Studies B.Arch Bezalel, and M.Sc. Technion (with distinction).
Social-professional engagement in the community (library, Beit-Am renovation, eco-park), and with NGO's (BIMKOM)
The 3rd teacher - a research-design studio, which bounds together space and advanced educational concepts.
Various Residential Projects.
Fields of interest
Conservation - Renovation - Reuse
Education and Cultural projects – design, design consulting for pedagogic institutions, Experience in complexed academic structures.
Born in Israel in 1957. Lives in Jerusalem, Israel. Married with 3 & two grandaughters.
Graduated (With honors) the Visual Communication Department of the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, Israel in 1982.
Illustrator, comics artist, storyboard artist & animator. With a great desire for history, old machines and natural history.
Throughout the years I have illustrated 35 picture books and illustrated children's books, 11 illustrated books and about 10 textbooks.
I have illustrated for various newspapers & magazines (Haaretz, Maariv, Yedioth, Bamahane, Einayim), and I have created short animated films and storyboards. I have also participated in animated TV and animated feature films productions (Doing storyboards, layout and character design).
