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
Dr. Liat Lavi, head of the Master's Program in Visual Communication (M.Des.) and lecturer in the Department of Visual and Material Culture, is a researcher and writer in the fields of culture, philosophy and technology. Her articles have been published in professional journals, reference books, and catalogs, and have been presented at international conferences. In addition to other topics, Dr. Lavi’s research deals with the impact growing technologies have on human perception, and the ethical issues these technologies raise; as reflected, for example, in the developing discourse surrounding "robot rights", with respect to issues of gender, resource distribution, and visual culture.
Dr. Lavi is an attorney, with a degree in law and economics from Tel Aviv University, a bachelor's degree in art from Bezalel, and both a master's degree and a doctorate from the Program for Hermeneutics & Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University. She has lectured in the philosophy department at Bar-Ilan University and served as the CEO of the Shpilman Institute of Photography (a public benefit company).
3D Animation Director, at snowball studios,
Working on series, movies and commercials.
On verity of projects and international clients like Disney, WB, Nickelodeon etc.
Teaching Character animation at Bezalel.
Teaching also at Sapir College, all the facets of 3D animation.
Graduated the Animation department at Bezalel.
Eran opened the animation department at Snowball vfx, and run it for years, then moved to be a creative director and now a director and developer of series and movies.
Prof. Einat Leader, Born in Jerusalem (1966), a jeweller, lecturer, researcher and curator in the field of metalwork, design and craft. A graduate of the Jewelry department, Bezalel (B.A. 1992) and a masters degree in industrial design from the Technion, Haifa (M.Sc. 2003). Associate Professor and faculty member at the department of Jewelry and Fashion (department head, 2005-2013) and in the department of Visual and Material Culture at Bezalel. Chairwoman of The Association for Contemporary Metalsmithing and Jewelry in Israel.
Her works have been exhibited among others at the The Ramat Gan Museum / Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv / Artists‘ Studios, Tel Aviv / Periscope Gallery, Tel Aviv / Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel Aviv / The Design Museum, Holon / The Israel Museum, Jerusalem / Tel Aviv City Museum / Magnes Museum, UC Berkeley / Fundación COAM, Madrid / Museum Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires / Jewellery Museum, Pforzheim / Mingei Museum, San Diego / Institut National des Metiers d’Art, Paris / Galerie für Angewandte Kunst, Munich / Jüdisches Museum, Hohenems / Froots Gallery, Shanghai / SMAC, Chemnitz / South Karelia Museum, Lappeenranta, / Jüdisches Museum, Hohenems / DIVA, Antwerp / The Silberwarenmuseum Ott-Pausersche Fabrik, Schwäbisch Gmünd.
About her works - publications lately: “70 Years of Craft and Design in Israel”, Smadar Samson, Mingei Museum, 2018 / “All About Tel Aviv - Jaffa Die Erfindung einer Stadt”, Hannes Sulzenbacher and Hanno Loewy, Jüdisches Museum, Hohenems, 2019 / “Contemporary Crafts in Israel”, Efrat Dgani, Eitav, 2019 / “Jewelers Speak Out”, Ursula Ilse-Neuman, Metalsmith Magazine, 2019 / “Jewellery: Creating a Practice of Meaning through Gesture”, Aya Bentur, Journal of Jewellery Research, 2020 / KORU7, International Contemporary Jewellery triennial 2021 / 20th International Silver Triennial, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2022 / “Craft and Leisure”, Tel-Aviv City museum. Curator: Galit Gaon, 2023.
Prizes and grants, among others: The Meisler Design, the Greiber Prize - Bezalel Academy Jerusalem 1990-91 / The Spertus Museum honorable mention, Chicago 1993 / The Deans summa cum laude Karplus prize, the Technion, Haifa, 2003 / Grants of the Rabinovich Foundation for solo and duo exhibitions, Tel Aviv 2003, 2009, 2015 / The Design Award, Culture Ministry of Israel 2010 / Alix de Rothschild Foundation honorable mention for craft work, Tel Aviv, 2012 / Mifal Hapais Scholarship for artist book, with David Goss, Tel Aviv, 2017.
Writings and publications by Einat Leader, Lately: “The Angels of Craft - Craft as a Cultural Vocation”, Israel - 70 Years of Craft & Design, The Mingei Museum. Editor and curator: Smadar Samson, California, 2018 / “Term of Adornment”, text for the exhibition Utopian Fantasists. (Curators: Shachar Cohen, Einat Leader(, Published on Beit Binyamini online, 2022 / “The Status of the Craft: A Local Historical Perspective on Attempts to Regulate and Promote the Arts and Crafts”, Decade Book of The Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel Aviv. Editor: Shlomit Bauman 2022 / “Mehahar”, with Vered Kaminski, curatorial text for the exhibition Sagsoget - the Bezalel academy’s Jewelry, at the Design museum - Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. (curators : Vered Kaminski, Einat Leader) 2023.
