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Judith Guetta, Israeli, born 1963.

Judith Guetta was born in Jerusalem in 1963 and grew up in South Tel Aviv. In her youth she played the bassoon. As soon as she finished her army service she began to study photography at Bezalel. From 1988-1989 she served as assistant to the photographer Micha Kirshner. In 1992 she was one of the founders of the gallery “Limo Bus” in Tel Aviv and served as the director and general manager of the gallery until 2008. From 2007 to 2009 she was head of the committee on plastic arts and a member of the film and television committee of the Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts. From 1993 to 2009 she was active in workshops in the Tel Aviv-Yafo area. Starting in 2009 she has been active in workshops in Ganei Tikva.

Guetta’s early photographic works are in black and white, reflecting her views on holding off reality. These works emphasized ways of seeing and the motifs of death and extinction. Her later works lean more toward the processing of computer pictures, along with pure photography, with a goal of examining the artistic image.

Education

1983–84 Camera Obscura School for the Arts, Tel Aviv
1982 Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, Photographjy
1984–88 École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
1988-89 Photography with Micha Kirshner

Teaching

1989–92 Camera Obscura School for the Arts, Tel Aviv
1990 École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
2006–2010 Sapir Academic College, Sderot, Head of Photography Department,

Awards And Prizes

1987 Prize for Outstanding Achievements, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
1988 Prize for Outstanding Achievements, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
1990 The America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Fund Grant
1994 Rita Poretsky Prize for Photography, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
1995 Gerard Levy Prize for a Young Photographer, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1999 Creative Encouragement Award, Ministry of Education and Culture
2005 The Minister of Education, Culture and Sport Prize for Plastic Art