Shabtai Pinchevsky

I’m a photographer and digital media artist working at the intersection of architecture, archives, technology, and politics. In my works, I use 3D modeling, mapping, internet-based tools, and more to examine archival photographic materials and their relations to geographies of conflict and displacement, especially in Palestine. My practice is engaged with issues of social justice and human rights, and their application in art and media.

Selected Works
If the Fire within Our EyesInstallation
2023
Duplicating PalestineInstallation
2022
An Abridged Draft for a Letter to Leila Khaled Video
2022
On the Optics of Mount ScopusVideo
2021
Anti MappingPhotography
2018-21
Perpetual Motion of the Fourth KindVideo / Photo
2019
Gas, Stun, Smoke Installation
2017
How to Photograph in the Land of IsraelPhotography
2016
From the Shoe BoxPhotography
2015


Other Works
Palestine Open Aerial
Tashlikh Atlas
Landscape in Continuum
The First Trail
The Jefferson Grid
Jerusalem Military Remains
Point Cloud Lifta
Stereoscopic Reconstructions
The Gardener's Post
Mabat 2000
Bezalel 1


      tai.shabtai@gmail.com

Anti Mapping / With Miki Kratsman
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art
March - November 2021


Khan al Ahmar, Position: 31°48’42” N 35°20’21” E, Altitude: 236.4 m, Timestamp: 25.6.2018 - 11:49-12:30





In Anti-Mapping, a collaborative project with photographer Miki Kratsman, we’re looking at the surface of the Earth as a photographic surface and a record-keeper. Our aim is to produce geographical documentation of the ongoing displacement of Palestinian and Bedouin communities throughout the territories governed by the State of Israel.







al-Jammama, Position: 31°29’51” N 34°41’7” E, Altitude: 164.2 m, Timestamp: 17.12.2018 - 13:27






Our documentation serves as an alternative to the restrictive visibility enforced by the Israeli government, which limits civilian access to maps and satellite imagery of the land. The resolution limit that Israeli aerial photography is subject to, does not allow for the gathering of geographical evidence on these places, which further obstructs the ability to document their history. By using drone photography and photogrammetry techniques, we have produced aerial views at a resolution that renders every rock, cinder block, grave, and more, at their finest detail, enabling a forensic study of the Earth, as a testimony to the atrocities endured by these communities.





al-'Araqib, Position: 31°20'42" N 34°46'52" E, Altitude: 376.5 m, Timestamp: 28.7.2018 - 14:27
al-Burj, Position: 31°54’9”N 35°1’14”E, Altitude: 276.6 m, Timestamp: 27.10.2018 - 10:15
al-Kunayyisa, Position: 31°53'19" N 34°57'30" E, Altitude: 252 m, Timestamp: 27.7.2018 - 17:00





Position: 33°0'38" N 35°26'38" E, Altitude: 788.7 m, Timestamp: 10.6.2019 - 12:36
Position: 33°0'39" N 35°26'36" E, Altitude: 788.9 m, Timestamp: 10.6.2019 - 12:34







Bayt Jibrin, Position: 31°36'31" N 34°54'3" E, Altitude: 362.7 m, Timestamp: 12.1.2019 - 13:11
Safsaf, Position: 33°0'32" N 35°26'37" E, Altitude: 914.8 m, Timestamp: 8.8.2018 - 16:30
Um el-Hiran Cemetety, Negev Desert, Position: 31°18’11” N 34°58’56” E, Altitude: 520.5 m, Timestamp: 5.5.2018 - 16:40






Position: 31°48'26" N 35°20'9" E, Altitude: 240.0 m, Timestamp: 2.7.2018 - 10:53
Position: 31°48'41" N 35°20'19" E, Altitude: 230.0 m, Timestamp: 16.7.2018 - 14:08
Position: 31°48'40" N 35°20'19" E, Altitude: 230.0 m, Timestamp: 16.7.2018 - 14:27
Position: 31°18'55" N 34°59'36" E, Altitude: 474.7 m, Timestamp: 27.2.2017 - 11:42
Position: 31°48'40" N 35°20'18" E, Altitude: 236.1 m, Timestamp: 16.7.2018 - 14:56
Position: 31°48'40" N 35°20'17" E, Altitude: 242.4 m, Timestamp: 16.7.2018 - 15:04







Khan Al-Ahmar - Abu Falah, Position: 31°48'26" N 35°20'10" E, Altitude: 314.1 m, Timestamp: 2.7.2018 - 12:14
Umm al-Hiran, Position: 31°18'56" N 34°59'36" E, Altitude: 492.2 m, Timestamp: 13.8.2018 - 10:56
Zir'in, Position: 32°33'29" N 35°19'38" E, Altitude: 209.5 m, Timestamp: 14.6.2018 - 16:29






Installation views, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, March - November 2021