Join us as we interview photographers Tanya Traboulsi and Tamara Abdul Hadi on our afikra Double Exposure series.
Date: Monday, October 11
Time: 12PM NYC | 5PM London | 7PM Beirut | 8PM Abu Dhabi
Hosted By: Mikey Muhanna (afikra)
Bio: Tanya Traboulsi is a Lebanese-Austrian photographer whose work explores highly personal themes of belonging, identity and memory, as well as the sociological stigmas relating to female identity. Her first monograph, entitled Lost Strange Things: On not finding home, was published by Triton in 2014. Her photographs are featured in several notable print and online publications like Brownbook, Colors Magazine, Phases Magazine, L’Oeil de la Photographie, Monocle, The Wire and many others. In 2013, she was awarded The Boghossian Foundation Prize for the series Seules.
Tamara Abdul Hadi is an Iraqi photographer whose work is concerned with the historic and contemporary representation of her own culture, in its diversity. Along with being a photographer, Tamara is an educator who has given photography workshops in Palestine, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, the UAE, Kuwait and Tunisia. In 2016, Tamara along with her collective Rawiya, presented a documentary photography storytelling workshop in Gaza. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The National, Huck Magazine, VICE, Slate and more.