Place of Residency
Museum Goch
Dafna Gazit (*1971) is an Israeli artist and professional photographer based in Düsseldorf, Germany. She is a graduate of the Applied Photography Department at Hadassah College of Technology, Jerusalem (1997, now The Jerusalem Multidisciplinary College), and HaMidrasha – Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl College (2005).
Dafna Gazit
Self Portrait in 30 minutes II, Daguerreotype, 11x9 cm, 2011
Dafna Gazit
Ikea Drawer, Daguerreotype, 11x9 cm, 2012
Discipline
Photography
Dafna Gazit
Lunch, Daguerreotype, 9x11 cm, 2016
Gazit has been active in the fields of art and photography since 1998. In 2005, she co-founded Alfred Gallery in Tel Aviv, an artist-run, non-profit cooperative supporting emerging artists, where she was an active member until 2019. Her commitment to collective artistic practice continues through long-term collaboration with The Betonbox, a Düsseldorf-based artist cooperative, active since 2015. This connection, combined with the impact of the ongoing war in Israel since October 7, 2023, ultimately led to her relocation to Germany.
Her artistic work explores the intersection between contemporary photography and its origins, using 19th-century techniques such as Daguerreotypes, Heliographs, and Gum Bichromate printing. Working with both digital and analog processes, she uses a variety of camera formats. Through her practice, Gazit aims to restore matter to photography while reviving its lost magic: capturing light rather than capturing a moment.
Dafna Gazit
Self Portrait in 30 minutes II, Daguerreotype, 11x9 cm, 2011
Dafna Gazit
Ikea Drawer, Daguerreotype, 11x9 cm, 2012
Discipline
Photography
Dafna Gazit
Lunch, Daguerreotype, 9x11 cm, 2016
Gazit has been active in the fields of art and photography since 1998. In 2005, she co-founded Alfred Gallery in Tel Aviv, an artist-run, non-profit cooperative supporting emerging artists, where she was an active member until 2019. Her commitment to collective artistic practice continues through long-term collaboration with The Betonbox, a Düsseldorf-based artist cooperative, active since 2015. This connection, combined with the impact of the ongoing war in Israel since October 7, 2023, ultimately led to her relocation to Germany.
Her artistic work explores the intersection between contemporary photography and its origins, using 19th-century techniques such as Daguerreotypes, Heliographs, and Gum Bichromate printing. Working with both digital and analog processes, she uses a variety of camera formats. Through her practice, Gazit aims to restore matter to photography while reviving its lost magic: capturing light rather than capturing a moment.