I'm a photographer and digital media artist whose practice examines the politics of image-making in contested geographies, particularly Israel/Palestine. I work across 3D modeling, mapping, drone photography, and archival research to examine photography's entanglements with colonial and territorial politics.
I'm an Assistant Professor of Photography at Parsons School of Design, The New School.
Selected
- An Abridged Draft for a Letter to Leila Khaled
- Anti Mapping
- On the Optics of Mount Scopus
- Perpetual Motion of the Fourth Kind
- Gas, Stun, Smoke
- How to Photograph in the Land of Israel
- From the Shoe Box
Interactive
Other Works
- If the Fire within Our Eyes
- Duplicating Palestine
- Jerusalem Military Remains
- The First Trail
- Landscape in Continuum
- The Gardener's Post
- Mabat 2000
- The Jefferson Grid
- Bezalel 1
- Point Cloud Lifta
- Stereoscopic Reconstructions
Teaching Tools
- Selected An Abridged Draft for a Letter to Leila Khaled
- Anti Mapping
- On the Optics of Mount Scopus
- Perpetual Motion of the Fourth Kind
- Gas, Stun, Smoke
- How to Photograph in the Land of Israel
- From the Shoe Box
- Other Works If the Fire within Our Eyes
- Duplicating Palestine
- Jerusalem Military Remains
- The First Trail
- Landscape in Continuum
- The Gardener's Post
- Mabat 2000
- The Jefferson Grid
- Bezalel 1
- Point Cloud Lifta
- Stereoscopic Reconstructions
I’m a photographer and digital media artist whose research-driven practice investigates the politics of image-making in contested geographies, particularly in Israel/Palestine. Working across 3D modeling, mapping, aerial photography, archival research, and computational media, I create augmented, site-specific representations that critically examine how photography not only contributed to the Zionist colonial projects but was fundamentally shaped by the tasks it lent itself to.
In this article, Noam Gal pays tribute to Allan Sekula’s essay “The Body and the Archive” (1986), analyzing the creative practice of two contemporary camera artists, Tomoko Sawada and Shabtai Pinchevsky, and the various social concerns their works evoke.
Can a Self-Driving Car Navigate an Apatheid Road will be screened at the Artport Artist Film Festival in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
The First Trail will be exhibited as part of Counter Landscape, curated by Karmit Galili, at Magasin III in Jaffa.
