Dafna Tzidkiyahu

Visual Artist · Photographer · Designer

Dafna Tzidkiyahu is an Israeli visual artist, photographer and designer working across portrait and documentary photography, installation, handmade objects and design. Her photographic work addresses identity, family, home and women’s experience in contemporary Israeli life.

In The Woman in Judaism (2023), presented at the Knesset in Jerusalem, Tzidkiyahu photographed thirteen women wearing headpieces that she conceived, designed and made by hand. The series takes the head covering as a meeting point between religious identity, femininity, portraiture and sculptural form.

In 2024, she created Temporary Address, a photographic series made in hotels housing residents of Kibbutz Mefalsim and Kfar Yuval after their evacuation in October 2023. The photographs focus on rooms, belongings and everyday routines through which family life continued in temporary surroundings.

Her work with sculpture and installation includes Masa (Journey) — Generation Goes and Generation Comes (2011), presented in Mineged at the U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art in Jerusalem, and Sea (Yam) (2012), a multimedia installation combining photography, sound and movement.

She also creates custom handmade hats and wearable objects; this material practice extends into the sculptural headpieces created for The Woman in Judaism. Her design work includes Dafna Chair, a breastfeeding chair designed for public spaces that received the 2026 European Product Design Award in two categories.