Photos from Kibbutz Bari • Exhibition at the Haifa Museum

First exhibition after October 7th

The first exhibition after the events of October 7, opens at the Haifa City Museum: still photographs and "360 degrees" photographs by the Haifa photographer Micha Brickman, who photographed in Kibbutz Bari in the days after the massacre. "Showing what happened is a public and moral duty," say the Haifa museums.

Details about the exhibition:

• Opening date: 30.11.2023
• Time: 16:00
• Location: Haifa City Museum, 11 Ben Gurion Ave. Haifa

Kibbutz "Bari"

An exhibition of photographs from Kibbutz "Bari" will open this week at the Haifa City Museum. This is an exhibition of photographs by the Haifa photographer Micah Brickman, who was invited to document Kibbutz "Bari" after October 7th, and it includes exciting works - both in still photographs and in "360 degree" photographs that are shown in the exhibition at special viewing positions that were set up. The exhibition "Bari" was established in a short time, unusually, because of the importance of the subject and the feeling in the Haifa museums that such an exhibition has a supreme public and moral importance.

This is what the Haifa museums said:

This is an exhibition that we are creating to shine an additional spotlight on what happened, so that things can be seen, and so that the public can share the intense feelings of grief and loss.

Micah Brickman's visits to the kibbutz invite a variety of experiences

The exhibition was carried out in cooperation and coordination with the people of Kibbutz Bari, to make sure that there would be no harm to the feelings of any of the people in the kibbutz. In a similar way and in coordination, the exhibition also displays items brought from the kibbutz, which is known to have been severely damaged.

The photographer Micah Brickman arrived after October 7 to Kibbutz Bari at the invitation of the Kibbutz people for several days of photography. Each visit of Brickman to the kibbutz evoked a different experience: slowly the adrenaline was replaced by a great feeling of pain, but also a sense of mission. His photographs commemorate "after the storm" but also convey the storm itself, the heartbreak, the pain and the fear in the infernal moments.

Micah Brickman's photographs

The exhibition features about twenty-five still photographs of Brickman, all of them from Bari. Beside them, also works of "360" photographs, one of which was taken using a drone, and they are presented to the public with the help of VR glasses at viewing positions that have been set up.

A significant complex in the Templar school

The Haifa City Museum dedicated to the "Barry" exhibition a significant complex in the museum building in the historic Templar school. The complex, starting with the stairs going up to the exhibition space, continues on the school balcony until the entrance to the peak of the exhibition, the exhibition space itself.

A little about Micah Brickman

Micah Brickman is a photographer who specializes in documentary photography whose goal is to 'tell a story'. Brickman has been a senior photographer for many years, in the world of journalism, fashion and the business sector and has documented many events in Israel and around the world. Photography, as he defines it, is "my good bacteria".

The exhibition is curated by Yifat Ashkenazi, curator of the Haifa City Museum. The design and planning of the space, which, as mentioned, was done in record time, was entrusted to the hands of Avishai Dotan from the "Dotan Lidzi" studio.

The opening event

Members of Kibbutz Barry were invited by the Haifa museums to the opening event, for whom a day of experiential activities was produced in the Haifa museums and a meeting with former players and representatives of the Maccabi Haifa club. At the end of the day, after a tour and activities for families at the Haifa Art Museum and a "tasting" tour at Wadi Nisnas, the exhibition will open at the Haifa City Museum in the German Colony.

The Haifa museums intend to increase the number of activities and educational events that will take place around the exhibition during the months of the exhibition. Opening of the exhibition on Thursday, 30.11.23, at 16:00 p.m., Haifa City Museum, 11 Ben Gurion Ave. Haifa. Reporters and photographers are invited.