Photography Archives - Edmond de Rothschild Center

Vadim Chebak

Photographer. Born 1997, Crimea, Ukraine, lives in Haifa.
B.A in Photography, Media & Non Fiction Film, the NB Haifa School of Design
Immigrated to Israel by himself at the age of 14, leaving his parents behind, in the hope of a better future. His work focuses on fashion, abstract photography, and collage. Fashion pulls him as a magnet representing beauty and the good life. Abstract images are his means of expressing emotions. And collages are the synergy of emotions and will.
Currently working as a teacher at Misgav High School.

Group exhibitions
2022 MOFET Institute art graduate exhibition, the Academic College Levinsky-Wingate (curator: Israel Rabinovitz)

Hila Mutsafi

Video, installation, drawing, cinematography, and poetry resistance artist.
BFA cum laude in Screen-Based Arts, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
Her work seeks to reappropriate concepts related to gender, trauma, and the collective subconscious. Her video art was included in the ZAZCORNER exhibition at Times Square, New York (2020).

Group exhibitions
2023 Grosso Modo Artists Collective gallery, Tel Aviv – Yafo
2022 The Artists Residence, Herzliya
2022 Beit Ariela Shaar Zion Library

Ayala Berger

Video, film and photography artist, born 1995. Lives and works in Tel Aviv – Yafo.
BFA in Photography, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (2022) | Recipient of the Rami Halperin prize for outstanding Photography students at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (2023) | Recipient of the Lia van Leer Award, courtesy of Rivka Saker, for best Israeli Video Art & Experimental Film at the Jerusalem Film Festival (2023) | Participated in the summer workshop collaboration between the Architecture Department at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (2019)

Her work featured in festivals and exhibitions in Israel and abroad, including:
2023 The 40th Jerusalem Film Festival
2023 Opening ceremony of the Manofim Contemporary Art Festival, Jerusalem
2022 Docaviv, the Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival
2022 Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv – Yafo
2022 SAIC Galleries, Chicago, Illinois
2022 Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival
2018 Cuckoo’s Nest gallery, Tel Aviv – Yafo

Shani Getz

A designer, programmer, who is currently a product manager. Grew up in Haifa, studied in Jerusalem, currently resides in Tel Aviv.

Studied in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design’s integrative program graduating from Bezalel’s Department of Visual Communication and the Hebrew University’s Department of Computer Science (2017-2022).

Shani explores the relationship between technology and design, from AI to UX/UI, and how the two worlds can be combined. Her work encompasses designs UX/UI, interactive experiences, product management, and the application of analytical thinking in design processes.

The Coalition for Rare Diseases chose one of her designs as a digital poster leading the Coalition’s international awareness campaign (2022).

Ori Gissin

Born 1998, Tel Aviv-Yafo
General BA cum laude in Humanities, Department of Photography, Minshar School of Art (2022)
Her work explores photography as an art form and its historic evolution, referencing critical essays on the act of photographing and its broader implications.

Group exhibitions:
2022 Minshar autumn exhibition, Tel Aviv-Yafo

Eden Zornitser

Abinary artist and photographer
BFA in Photography, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (2022) | Recipient of the Yosef Milo award for outstanding photography students (2023) | Participated in the student exchange program (Erasmus scholarship) at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest | Recipient of the Print House scholarship for outstanding graduation project (2021) | Interned at Indie Photography Group gallery (2022)
Focusing on portrait photography, his work explores youth, identity, queer culture, subculture, and individualism. His graduation project images were purchased by a private collector in Tel Aviv-Yafo (2022).

Group exhibitions:
2023 Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2022 Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2022 The Social Gallery, Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2022 Outside the Box #4, ARTIQ project, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2021 Going Out, Portfolio online magazine, Old Jaffa street gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2021 School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago
2022 Blurred Lines international catalog finalist

Yarden Tasa

Multidisciplinary artist
Born 1994, Beko’a
B.Ed. in Design and Art, Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts (2018) | B.Design in Visual Communications Design, Holon Institute of Technology (2022) | Recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship for outstanding art students | Recipient of the Liora Galimidi scholarship for outstanding graduation project
Her works combine multiple artistic disciplines including sculpture, painting, photography, video, installation and textile to form links between life and death, nature and man, center and periphery, women’s cultural position and Middle Eastern origins, connections that are also expressed in the materials used.
Contributed to a joint project with the Michal Sela Forum, which promotes and develops tools for eradicating domestic violence.

Group exhibitions:
2022 Coming Into the Light, women artists exhibition at the Artists House, Beit Shemesh
2022 End. Beginning #3, Kibbutzim College of Education Art Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2022 The Unravelled Side of the Moon, Artspace Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2021 Near and Far, Artspace Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2020 As If There Is Tomorrow, Amiad Center, Tel Aviv-Yafo

Iris Gitik

Born 1997, Kfar Sava, living in Haifa
B.Ed.F.A cum laude in Art and Education, Beit Berl College Faculty of Arts – Hamidrasha (2022) | Recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship for outstanding students (2022) | Recipient of the Raffi Lavie President’s Award for outstanding art students (2022) and of the Dean’s scholarship (2021) at Beit Berl College Faculty of Arts – Hamidrasha | Winner of the video art competition at EPOS International Art Film Festival, Tel Aviv-Yafo (2020) | Recipient of the Thelma Yellin High School for the Arts student scholarship (2015)
Solo exhibitions
2023 Alyada gallery, Old Jaffa

Group exhibitions:
2023 First Stop, Tishreen gallery, Tayibe
2022 Hathiya at 14, HaThiya Space for Art and Critical Thinking, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2022 La Culture Illustration Edition, Amiad Center, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2022 Under the Street Lamp 9 art festival, Ein Shemer
2022 Monsters, Old Jaffa street gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2022 Going Out, Old Jaffa street gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2021 Common Sense, HaMidrasha gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo

Rotem Matarasso

User experience designer, photographer and writer
Born 1993, lives in Kfar Saba
B.Des in Visual Communications Design, Holon Institute of Technology

For the past four year researches sports and fan culture, mostly in Israel and in Germany, and lectures on the intriguing connections between football and culture, design, art, marketing, advertising and other fields. Interested in the design and development of complex systems. Currently working as a UX/UI designer in a big tech company.

Anat Waserman

Photography, installation and sound artist
Born 1993, Kibbutz Mesilot, lives in Herzliya
Photography, Media & Non-Fiction Film graduate cum laude, NB Haifa School of Design (2021)
Her works enact appropriation through the use of still photographs, videos and texts she finds in conservation arenas such as the kibbutz archives or her and her family’s archives, seeking to shed new light on what is and re-examine it through deconstruction and editing.

Group exhibitions
2022 More than Meets the Eye, Beit Ariela Shaar Zion Library, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2021 PHOTO IS:RAEL, the 9th International Photography Festival, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2021 Overtime, Radar art weekend, Haifa
2021 Graduate student exhibition, Beit HaGefen Culture Center, Haifa
2021 Outstanding students in the northern region, Hecht Museum, Haifa

Tair Zargary

Still photography, video and print artist
Born 1991, lives in Haifa
Photography, Media & Non-Fiction Film graduate, NB Haifa School of Design
Photography educator at the Kiryat Ata Educational Center (high school), member of the Art Education staff at the Haifa Museum of Art, art guide at the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Haifa, and the Hermann Struck Museum, Haifa.

Group exhibitions
2022 Art College Graduates’ exhibition, Mofet Institute, Tel Aviv-Yafo
Curator: Israel Rabinovich
2022 Body out of Lockdown, video dance at Mitzpe Ramon Film Festival
Curator: Noga Dekel
2022 Moving through Space and Time, Israel Railways train stations
Curators: Keren Stevenson Lahav and Galit Malis
2021 Overtime, Radar art weekend, Haifa
2021 Northern Voice, PHOTO IS:RAEL, the 9th International Photography Festival, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2020 The Other Side, anonymous waves White page Gallery
Curator: Bob Georgeson
2020 Open, Window, Haifa Labor Council building, Haifa
Curated by the Tarbut Movement

Sharon Halperin

Photography and installation artist, photography teacher and guide at the Wilfrid Israel Museum
Born 1995, lives in Yokne’am Illit
Photography, Media & Non-Fiction Film graduate, NB Haifa School of Design

Group exhibitions
2021 PHOTO IS:RAEL, the 9th International Photography Festival, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2021 Minus 2 – Overtime, Radar art weekend, Haifa
2020 The 4th print fair, the Print House, Tel Aviv-Yafo

Oded Daniely

Photography and print artist
Born in Shlomi, lives in Tel Aviv-Yafo
BFA in Multidisciplinary Art, Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art (2021)

Group exhibitions
2021 Going Out, Old Jaffa street gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2021 Case by Case, Beit Kandinof complex, old city of Jaffa, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2021 Multidisciplinary art graduate student exhibition, Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art campus, Ramat Gan
2020 Layers, N.D Gallery, Ramat Gan

Shani Avivi

Multidisciplinary artist (photography, video, sculpture, and installations)
Born 1993, Azaria, living and working in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv-Yafo
MFA in Fine Arts, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (2023) | B.Ed. cum laude in Design and Art, Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts (2021) | Participated in the student exchange program at the Art Academy of Szczecin, Poland (2019)
Recipient of the award for outstanding graduation project, Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts (2021). Participant in Edmond de Rothschild Center’s Professional Development Program in the field of Art (2021). Recipient of the artists grant by the Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts (2022). Participant in the artist incubator program at Art Cube Artists’ Studios, Jerusalem (2022).
Currently a member of SALOON Jerusalem, member of the Edmond de Rothschild Center’s alumni network steering committee, and an active member of Art Cube Artists’ Studios in Jerusalem.
Her work responds to the relationship between man and territory, boundaries, and the environment.
Solo exhibitions
2022 Trees Posing as a Forest, Gallery 4, Tel Aviv-Yafo

Group exhibitions
2023 OMG, Edmond de Rothschild Center, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2022 Edom – The Journey to the Road, Arad Contemporary Art Center, Arad
2022 Artist residency, Arad Contemporary Art Center, Arad
2022 Out of Place, Art Cube Artists’ Studio, Jerusalem
2021 Near and Far, Artspace Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2021 New Guidelines multidisciplinary art event, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2021 As If There Is Tomorrow, Amiad Center, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2020 Art became an empty sound for us, Szczecin, Poland
2020 Sharqiya, The Lab art space, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2019 Rock the Cradle, Edmond de Rothschild Center, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2018 Shabab, Neve Shalom Art Gallery

Neta Moses

Born in 1990, lives and works in Jerusalem, works in video and installation.

Graduated from a program that combines a degree in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a degree in Screen Arts from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem.

Neta Moses was awarded a Scholarship for Excellence in Video Art from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. Her short film won first prize at Jerusalem Film Festival’s Experimental Film Competition. She has participated in several group exhibitions and presented a solo exhibition at Gram Gallery, Jerusalem.

Nadia Adler

Born in Russia.

Photographer and artist. Deals with memory spaces and their documentation using analog printing techniques.

Graduated with honors in Photography from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (2020); graduate of Canon’s International Photographer Development Program (2020).

Winner of the Rami Halperin Excellence Award (2020).

Group exhibitions

Photo Israel International Photography Festival, Tel Aviv (2020)
At Second Glance, in collaboration with the JNF Photo Archive, Black Box Gallery, Jerusalem (2019)

Eden Bezalel Habas

Born in Jerusalem, works mainly in the fields of cinema, video and installation.

Graduated in Screen Arts from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem; participated in a student exchange program at the California Institute of the Arts (Calarts).

Winner of the Departmental Excellence Award for two consecutive academic years.

Eden Bezalel Habas’ works are characterized by an extended observation of an environment, a place, or the wilderness. Sometimes he physically intervenes in the photographed landscape, other times he intervenes digitally at a later stage.

Group exhibitions and festivals

17th Digital Arts Festival, Athens (2021)
Street Gallery, Portfolio Magazine, Jaffa (2021)
Zaz10ts Gallery, New York (2020)
Musrara Mix Festival, International Exhibition, Jerusalem (2020)
Opening event of the Jazz Festival, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2020)
Morgan Library & Museum, New York (2019)

Dor Bar Shlomo

Painter, animator and writer, lives and works in Tel Aviv-Yafo.

Graduated with honors from the Visual Communication Department, Illustration and Animation pathway, Shenkar College, Ramat Gan.

Winner of the Arta Scholarship for Young Artists (2020); winner of the New Film and Television Foundation Scholarship (2021); winner of the Audience Choice Award for Best Film at the Icona Festival, Greece (2021).

Group exhibitions

Fresh Paint Art Fair
The Secret Postcard Project
La Culture, Beit Mazeh, Tel Aviv
During the day, the houses hear the street, the Fridge Gallery, Curators: Ruth Bigger and Iris Argaman

Festivals

Asif Festival, Tel Aviv Cinematheque
Kinoprova Experimental Film Festival, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Icona Festival, Greece

Ori Shifrin Anavi

Born in 1991in Israel.

Studied at Thelma Yellin High School of Visual Arts, Givatayim (2009); graduated in Industrial Design from Shenkar College (2020); won the Academic Excellence Scholarship from the Azrieli Foundation (2018), the Sharett America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship (2020) and the First Studio Scholarship, Beit Binyamini, Center for Contemporary Ceramics (2020).

Since 2019 Shifrin Anavi has been working as the assistant of Yacov Kaufman, an industrial designer, artist and researcher.

He participated in the exhibition “Ein & Zwanzig” in Germany, Milan Design Week (2019), and Into the Light by Portfolio Magazine (2020).

NINETYTWO Studio

NINETYTWO Studio was established in the fall of 2016 by Gal Shneor and Enav Sharon-Nitzan, two graduates of the WIZO Academic Center in Haifa.

The studio specializes in visual identity design, book design, typography and photography in the fields of art and culture. The studio also initiates artistic/conceptual collaborations with artists from other disciplines such as textile and plastic arts.

After years of work with Michael Gordon, Gal went on to complete a master’s degree in Book Design at the Typography Department of Reading University, England. Enav is the first prize winner of the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem. She also worked as manager of graphic identity design processes at a branding studio in Tel Aviv.

Works by NINETYTWO Studio have been exhibited in Israel and worldwide, including:

Design Week in Milan
Gallery of contemporary art in London
Jerusalem Design Week
Tel Aviv Illustration Week

Ala Haytham

Born in Taibeh; artist and musician.

Graduated in Art and Education from HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts, Beit Berl Academic College; graduate student in Art Therapy at HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts, Beit Berl Academic College; won an Excellence Scholarship in Practical Studies and an Excellence in Art Award.

Mainly works in painting and sculpture. Her works focus on the Palestinian issue: the family, the “DAD” language (Arabic language) and the Palestinian identity in the Occupied Territories. She also addresses non-political issues such as portraits and landscapes.

She presented a solo exhibition at the Midrasha Gallery, Hayarkon 19, Tel Aviv, and participated in several group exhibitions.

Ariel Hacohen

Born in 1993.

Graduated with honors in Photography from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (2019); won the Lauren and Mitchell Presser Award for Excellence in Photography (2020); won the Yossi Berger Award for Excellence in Photography (2019); won the Excellence Award from the Department of Visual and Material Culture (2019); won the Bezalel Award for Academic Excellence (2018); won an Excellence Scholarship from the American-Israel Cultural Foundation (2019); won the Hecht Prize for Young Artists (2019).

Participated in the Student Exchange Program at the Beaux-Arts (National Academy of Fine Arts), Paris (2017); participated in a long-term artist residency program at the Artists’ Studios, Talpiot, Jerusalem (2020). Since September 2020, he has been studying for his master’s degree at the Royal College of Art, London, with the support of a scholarship from the Clore Foundation and the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.

Ariel Hacohen works in the field of conceptual photography and uses a variety of photographic approaches, including direct and staged photography, image appropriation, video, digital manipulation, 3D modeling and casting.

He has participated in exhibitions at galleries and museums, including the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2020); Beit Binyamini, Tel Aviv (2020); The New Teddy Gallery, Jerusalem (2020); the International Photography Festival, Tel Aviv (2019); The Cube Gallery, Jerusalem (2019); Beit Hagefen Gallery, Haifa (2016).

Yuval Naor

Graduated with honors in Photography from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (2019); participated in a student exchange program at the Academy of Arts (HGB), Leipzig, Germany; won the Rami Halperin Award for Excellence in Photography, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (2020); received Excellence scholarships from the Media Company and from SBY Studio (2018, 2019).

Yuval Naor works in photography, video and installation. His works are based on private and national narratives drawn from the past, and explore the different ways in which history and fantasy exist within those narratives.

Group exhibitions

Darfler Gallery, Musrara, Jerusalem (2020)
Manofim Festival, Jerusalem (2019)
International Photography Festival, Tel Aviv (2019)
The Photography Lab, Tel Aviv (2019)
Bezalel Photography Gallery, Jerusalem (2018)

Leroy Bar-Natan

Graduated with honors in Art from Sapir College (2019); won a scholarship for Excellent Solo Exhibition (January 2021); won the Creative Encouragement Award, ARTiq; won second place in the “Personal Signature” short story competition.

Presented solo exhibitions at Isha L’Isha—Haifa Feminist Center; Essential Wall on Outer Wall – a project in Tel Aviv’s Florentine neighborhood curated by the Bush Collective. Participated in group exhibitions at Trumpeldor Gallery; The Fridge Gallery; We Love Art Festiva; HaSimta Theater; F*ing Florentine Festival curated by the Kan Ensemble. Creates independent street performances in collaboration with Michal Gil.

Reut Brill

Photographer, painter and illustrator; graduated from the Art Department of Shenkar.

I am interested in the points of encounter between the physical and the spiritual worlds, the soul and the unseen. I also deal with questions of Jewish identity and the experience of modern life.

Adi Lam

Still and video photographer.

Graduated with honors in Photography, Minshar College of Art (2020); won the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence (2018).

Group exhibitions:

2018 – SBY Gallery
2019 – Independent collaborative space
2019 – Minshar Gallery
2019 – ABK Stuttgart
2020 – The Fridge Gallery

Michael Tzur

Born 1991. Photographer and artist.

Graduated with honors in Photography, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (2020); won the Paul and Diane Schatz Excellence Award for a socially-engaged work (2020); graduated from the Summer Studies Program of Wasada University, Tokyo, Japan, on behalf of the Department of Architecture, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (2018).

Michael Tzur engages in research through photography. His works deal with the Israeli socio-political space through the creation of a realistic and poetic documentation.

Shahar Tishler

Born 1992, living in Haifa
Still photographer and video artist. Staff member at Yama art gallery, Nahariya. Photography teacher at the NB Haifa School of Design continuing studies department and at the Ort Bialik high school.

Graduated with honors from the Department of Photography, Media & Non Fiction Film at NB Haifa School of Design (2020). Awarded the Galil Film Fund grant for a documentary student film (2020). Alumni of the Edmond de Rothschild Center’s Professional Development Program in the field of Art (2021).

His photography series People of the Krayot featured in issue no. 15 of the AAP photography magazine titled Streets (2021). Participated in the BFAM project, purchasing art by rising photographers (2021). Received an artist’s residency at Migdal Hamayim gallery, Nahariya. Involved in artistic processes at the ZUMU museum in Nahariya. His works feature in many fashion and portrait photography magazines around the world.

Group exhibitions
2022 No Entry, outdoor art exhibition by the Edmond de Rothschild Center and 3X3 Active Gallery
Curators: Michal Shapira, Lihi Gerstner. Assistant curator: Romi Bendlak
2022 Bread & Roses, Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios
Curator: Hagai Orlich
2021 Local Landscape, Tveria 15 community center, Haifa
Curators: Hadas Duchan, Dor An-Eli
2020 Going Out, design and art graduate student exhibition, old Jaffa street gallery, Tel Aviv Yafo, Israel
Curators: Hagit Peleg Rotem, Yuval Saar
2020 Metro Art, group exhibition at the Carmelit subway system, Haifa
Curator: Shirly Meshulam
2019 Talpiot Market contemporary art exhibition, as part of the Social Bauhaus festival, Haifa
Curator: Galia Bar Or
2019 Social Photography group exhibition in the 7th Koresh Vhadati Photography Festival
Curator: Shiraz Greenbaum

Daniella Bella CandleShine

Lives and works in Tel Aviv.

Works in different media such as drawing, video and sculpture. Each action requires its own material.

Graduated with honors in Fine Art from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (2020); was an exchange student at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (2019).

My body is an important creative partner. It appears in my works as an actor, an image or a measurement unit. As a raw material it is easily available, malleable, compliant and inexpensive. The fact that I own it endows me with freedom of action.

For the past two years I have been drawing with wall putty and charcoal, using a technique that I keep developing and through which I keep evolving. My drawings are made in motion, as I stand in front of the wall and mobilize my entire body. Movement is an integral part of the drawing itself, as is the space in which the drawing is being produced. I explore the physicality of the act of drawing, the spiritual charge inherent to the creative act, as well as the material tension between the triviality and coarseness of the wall putty on the one hand, and the delicacy and fragility of the charcoal on the other.

Sima Landa

Born in 1989 in the Soviet Union, lives and works in the center of Israel.

Sima Landa is a multidisciplinary artist who primarily works in photography and sculpture.

She graduated in Photography from Minshar College of Art, Tel Aviv (2018).

Solo exhibition:

Metropolis, Kandinoff House (2018)

Group exhibitions:

Below the Surface, the Fridge Gallery (2019)
The Eye’s Lie, Indie Gallery (2018)
Border Line, Beit Michal (2018)
Into the Light, Tel Aviv-Yafo (2018)
Fill-In, Minashar (2018)