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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
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).
English teacher, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
English teacher, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, 'Oman' – Haredi Extension
English teacher, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, 'Oman' – Haredi Extension, Mechina.
MA with high honors in Teaching Languages, English, Tel Aviv University.
BA in English Linguistics + teacher's certificate, Bar Ilan University.
Graduate Certificates in Teaching English to students with learning disabilities, Kibbutzim College.
Karam Natour (b.1992) is an artist and lecturer who lives and works in Tel Aviv. Natour completed both his B.F.A. & M.F.A. studies (Hons) at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. Natour is a lecturer at Bezalel Academy, Tel Aviv Museum, and other academies. His works have been exhibited in various museums and venues in Israel and abroad, including Tel Aviv Museum, Israel Museum, Oberhausen Short Film Festival (Germany), Triumph Gallery (Moscow), and solo shows at Umm El Fahem Gallery, and Rosenfeld Gallery. Natour has received awards from the Ministry of Science Culture and Sport, Artport, Ostrovsky Family Fund, The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, and The Pais Council for Culture and Art.
Lecturer and researcher in the field of Cinema and Television Studies. Tomer teaches at the Department of Visual and Material Culture at Bezalel as well as at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. Her research is concerned on the ties between cinema, technology and music. Her work is primarily focused on phenomenological experiences of viewing and listening in popular culture: from music channels to professional wrestling, between the classical Hollywood Musical and the Historical Epic film, as well as reflexive and cinephilic practices in cinema and on the internet. She has completed her Master’s Thesis titled “The Period Film Musical as an Experience of Saturated Historicity” at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. She is a graduate the Screen Based Arts Department at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.
