Category: Photography
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Born in Lebanon in 1978.Lives and works between Beirut and Marseille. In 2005, she won first prize in photography at the 5th Francophone Games. She was also awarded the No Limit prize at the Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles in 2006, an international prize which rewards an artist whose work takes photography beyond the boundaries of the…
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Afraa Ahmed (b.1992, Yemen), currently based in Cairo, is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work includes installation, sculpture, photography and video. She holds a degree in Multimedia Technology from Asia Pacific University in Malaysia. There she began to explore the ways familiarity and ‘safety’ of home stay within us even after being disconnected. Her work has…
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Working primarily in photography and video, Maha Maamoun’s work has been presented by many institutions worldwide including Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London; MoMA, New York; ICP, New York; New Museum, New York; MuHKA, Antwerp; MATHAF – Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Beirut Art Center, Beirut; Makan, Amman; Steirischer Herbst,…
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Born in 1955, Greta Naufal is a visual artist and art educator. She started studying painting under John Guvder in 1967 and later at l’Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts under the tutelage of the pioneers of Lebanese modern art (Yvette Achkar, Seta Manoukian, Aref El Rayess, Rafik Charaf, Jamil Malaeb, Nadia Saikaly and Amine El Bacha).…
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Born to an Austrian mother and a Lebanese father, Tanya spent her early childhood in Beirut. Growing up between two very different cultures, she experienced not only cultural enrichment but also a profound alienation from the concept of “home”. This sense of disruption and search defines Tanya’s photographic work throughout the years. Later on, while…