Album Darom
Dana Arieli
2024
Israeli Photographers in Tribute to the People of the Western Negev
Israeli Photographers in tribute to the residents of the Western Negev is the subtitle of Album Darom (Album of the South), created by Dana Arieli. More than a hundred photographers are participating in the books, which brings the story of the Western Negev in pictures: the settlements, the residents, the events - beginning with the early days of the Jewish settlement in the region, with the establishment of the state and the 1948 war, up to October 7th and the war that followed.
A few days after October 7th, 2023, Arieli posted her photos from the Western Negev on Facebook. She sent an open call to photographers and continued uploading materials from 107 photographers over 107 days. This was compiled into an exhibition at the Petah-Tikva Museum, followed by the publishing of this book.
Album Darom has two editions: An artist book with a soft cover of 200 copies. And a hardcover edition published by Yedioth Books of 2000 copies.
- Design: Tamar Eliyaho, Oded Azar
- Editing: Dana Arieli
- Texts: Dana areli, Irena Gordon, Ziva Jelin, Guy Raz
- Language editing: Ronit Rosenthal, J. Appleton
- Copies: 200
- Pages: 320
- Type of binding: Soft Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 29X34
- Reproductions: Yigal Felix: Kaleidoscope Studio
- Printing: Reytan Printing Ltd
- Binding: Reytan Printing Ltd
- Type of printing: Offset
- Place of publication: Tel Aviv-Jaffa
- Supported by: The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, The Jewish Agency for Israel, Werner and Anat Brown Fund, The Yad Mordechai Museum, the Petah Tikva Museum of Art
- Book photography: Leafing Magazine
- ISBN: 978-965-201-868
Professor Dana Arieli is a researcher and a photographer. Arieli’s research deals with the interrelations between Art and Politics in both Totalitarian and Democratic political systems. She has completed her Ph.d. at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and studied Photography in Camera Obscura and Bazelel. Between 2012 and 2018 Arieli served as the Dean of Design Faculty at HIT, Holon Institute of Technology, where she is teaching today. Between 2004-2012 she served as the head of the History and Theory Department at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. She wrote a collection and published dozens of books and articles. She recently won a commendation from the Kipa Award.
