Category: Photography
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Neda Razavipour’s artistic practice explores the question of balance, a condition that continually shifts between the extremes of order and chaos. This search affects the individual as well as entire societies, spaces, and structures. For this reason, she usually conceives her work site-specifically, developing in a precise choreography over several days, weeks, or months. Often…
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Sara Abbasnejad was born in 1983, in the midst of the Iran-Iraq War, in the tumultuous region of Khuzestan, adjacent to the Persian Gulf. Upon obtaining a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering – Telecommunications from the university, she made the unconventional choice to leave behind her academic study in pursuit of exploring her experiences and…
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Farah Salem is a Kuwaiti-Iraqi Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist and art therapist. Her studio and art therapy practices are bridged by socially engaged artistic and therapeutic practices. In her studio practice, she finds subtle affinities between geologic time, somatic movement, the human psyche, gendered trauma, ceremonial music/dance and healing rituals from the Arabian Peninsula. Through relational…
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Maha Alasaker is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans across various mediums, including photography, performance, textiles, and natural dyes. Her artistic explorations are driven by her curiosity about anthropology and culture, as well as her interest in the connection between land and human beliefs. As a woman who grew up in the Middle East, Maha’s…
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Audrée Anid is an artist, curator, and writer. Audrée was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan to Lebanese immigrant parents and was raised in New York City. She holds a BA from Wesleyan University in Connecticut and an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University in New York. Her visual art practice spans photography, painting, and printmaking;…
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Danièle Chikhani (born in Beirut, Lebanon) is an Architect by training, she worked in this field in Lebanon and in Paris, where she lived from 1985 to 2006. She returned from France to her native Lebanon in 2006, and now lives in Beirut. Daniele began to use photography in 1978, in parallel with her studies…
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Lara Atallah is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. Her practice explores the political dimensions of landscape, probing both the futility and fluidity of borders as man-made constructs. Her work has been exhibited in the US and internationally and is part of the NYU Langone Collection and the Met Museum, among others. Her writing has appeared…
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Lara Chahine lives and works in Lebanon. She is a self-taught freelance photographer and researcher. Her project “Bless Your Beauty,” created with the Arab Documentary Photography Program is her first long-term documentary project and the starting point of her career as an image-maker. Her approach to photography is spontaneous, and her goal is to interpret…
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Manal Abu-Shaheen (b. 1982, Beirut) is a Lebanese-American photographer currently living and working in the Bronx, NY. Her recent solo exhibitions include Beirut, The Artist Room by Taymour Grahne Projects, London, UK (2022), Mapping Utopia, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR (2021), 2d Skin, Soloway, Brooklyn, NY (2019), Theater of Dreams, Bernstein Gallery, Princeton University, NJ…
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Btihal Remli ( b. 1987, Germany out of Moroccan descent) is a visual storyteller focused on art and documentary photography. Based in Morocco, where her family is originally from, Btihal explores stories related to identity, religion and belief, gender and socio-cultural representation in her home country. She has also attempted to convey the juxtaposition between…
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Malika Sqalli is a multicultural and multilingual artist who uses photography as a medium which shows “reality” in new ways, or, as the great critic John Berger put it, her images are a way of “catching the frame between the frame”, and that frame can be an idea or an emotion in the mind that…
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Oumayma Abouzid Souali is a young Moroccan artist, born in 1997 in Rabat. She is currently based between Tetouan and Casablanca. She obtained her Art Diploma in 2021 at the National Institute of Fine Arts of Tetouan (INBA). She has experimented with different mediums, including performance, drawing, printmaking, installation, video art, photography and singing. She…
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Born in 1970, in Palestine. Through a documentary aesthetic, her photographic work addresses the contradictory implications of the notion of home; it deals with the loss of home and the fight against that loss, but also with the restrictions and limitations that the idea of home imposes on individuals and communities marked by repressive identity…
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Faten Nastas Mitwasi was born in 1975 in Bethlehem. She was inspired by her father, Fawzy Nastas, a prolific sculptor. She received an MFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem in 2011. She started working at Dar Annadwa Cultural Center in 1998 as the art coordinator, curating exhibitions and organizing courses. She…
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Wiame Haddad (1987) is a Tunisian, Moroccan and French artist and filmmaker. She is a graduate of the ESAD in Valenciennes and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de la Cambre in Brussels. Her artistic work takes on the scope of a photographic and cinematographic study, constituting ethical and formal research. This research is…