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.
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.
Working in three-dimensional digital environments allows me to step outside photography’s fixed perspective to study the medium’s complications and entanglements with critical distance. At the same time, it is the use of my own voice and writing that positions me as an implicated actor within the territories I explore, and places my own subject-position as an Israeli Jew at the foundation of my interrogation.
My practice emerges from a deep personal reckoning. I hold a strong affinity for Israel—one that is a source of much shame. What concerns me, what drives my practice, is how deeply the logics of that place—settler colonialism, Jewish supremacy—shape how I see and move through the world. For me, anti-Zionism is not a fixed position but a trajectory, something I work towards rather than claim to fully inhabit. This ongoing project defines my most immediate audience: those who share that trajectory, those who must reckon with Zionist logics too. While I recognize the importance and impact of direct action against Israeli cultural institutions, I see my work as mobilizing shame from within. I feel compelled to remain in conversation with that place and those who must reckon with it, even as each presentation of my work there involves its own shame. Even as the immediate present can often make my practice feel insufficient, I try to keep my voice and trajectory clear and sharp, making work that, I hope, will participate in the future work of dismantling Zionism in Palestine.
September 2026
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.