In 1988, when I started my studies, I was already working as an independent photographer and I seized every opportunity to join workshops held by artist-photographers who visited Israel. At the same time, I realized that a four-year structured program at Bezalel would expose me to Art History as well as to various approaches to the art of photography. The personal developmental process that I underwent as part of a group of students studying art and photography is etched in my consciousness and continues to be a lodestone for my perspective as a teacher.
It was Avi Sabag who granted me my first opportunity as a teacher, in the program of courses open to the public at the School of Photography at Musrara — The Naggar Multidisciplinary School of Art and Society. It was a real gift for me to meet, on a weekly basis, a group of people of all ages from all sectors of society and to instill in them the passion to express themselves and evolve via the medium of photography. I soon became a lecturer in the full program of studies at Musrara, where I taught for more than two decades.
In 1996 Igael Shem Tov, then head of the Photography Department at Bezalel, invited me to join the department as a lecturer, and I am still working there today. Over the years I also taught at the HaMidrasha Faculty of Arts at Beit Berl College and at Sapir Academic College and was head of the Photography Department at the Ascola-Meimad College of Art and Design in Tel Aviv. Teaching photography is still one of my favorite things to do, a wellspring of personal renewal and development and of course also of courageous friendships which have blossomed over the years as I have guided students, some of whom became assistants at my studio, and active and respected artists in their own right.
