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
From the Shoe Box
The work is based on a collection of approximately 700 passport images found in the Yad Yizhak Ben Zvi Image Archive, Jerusalem. The images were taken at the Hashed immigration camp (‘Geula’), Yemen, during the first wave of immigration of the ‘On Wings of Eagles’ operation (December 1948 - March 1949). Written on the verso of each picture are the names of the person photographed, date of photography, and one repeating name - Yechiel Shlomo Kessar.
The collection was digitized and cataloged by the artist, and is available at the archive.
While I recognize the importance and impact of direct action against Israeli cultural institutions, I see my role in working to mobilize shame from within. I feel compelled to remain in conversation with that place and those who must reckon with it, even as each opportunity involves its own shame.
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.
