Department of Photography
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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, Graduate of the Architecture department in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (2014).During her studies, Ayelet participated in a spontaneous architecture project in India (SABA 2011). A collaborative project with the Department of Architecture of CEPT University, Ahmedabad. The project involved planning and building classrooms made of local materials for farmers and their children in the rural area of the Halvad desert.
In 2012, Ayelet participated in the student exchange program in FAUP, the Department of Architecture in Porto University, Portugal. During this program Ayelet was inspired by the Portuguese public domain architecture which aspires to integrate the design into the environment and society in which it resides.
Ayelet won the ‘Final Project Encouragement’ scholarship from the Schneidinger Foundation. In the project “Waiting for the next disaster”, Ayelet examined the idea of urban renewal and formulated a progressive strategy of public housing revival in Israel, where the underlining drive for renewal is an imminent disaster.
Since 2014 Ayelet has been a lecturer at the orthodox extension ‘Oman’ and the pre-studies department at Bezalel. In 2015 Ayelet joined ‘Shlomo Aharonson Architects’ office for landscape architecture and urban planning and in 2018 she founded BAAB company for architecture and interior design together with arch.Itai Bechor.
