ARTISTS
Zied Ben Romdhane | ziedbenromdhane.net
Zied Ben Romdhane (b. 1981, Tunisia) started his career as a
commercial photographer. In 2011 he switched to documentary
photography and photojournalism. His work has been featured in The
New York Times and The Washington Post.
His recent exhibitions include Views of Tunisia (Arles 2013), After
the Revolution (White Box, NY 2013), and Zones d’Attente (Clark
House, Bombay 2013), kushti (Maison de la Tunisie, Paris 2013),
Fotofest Biennial in Houston Center for Photography (Houston , USA
2014), Sahel (1×1 Gallery, Dubai 2014), Trace (MUCEM, Marseille
2015) , Afrotopia African biennale of photography (Bamako , Mali
2017), and the Biennale of the photographs of the contemporary Arab
world (France , Paris 2017) ... .
Romdhane published his first book West of Life in 2018 with
Red Hook Editions.
Prizes and awards include, selection for the Prize 6X6 Global
Talent Program 2018 with World Press Photo Foundation, participant
of Joop swart masterclass with World Press Photo, winner of the
POPCAP award (Africa Image, Basel, 2015).
He is the Director of Photography of Fallega (2011), a
documentary film about the Arab Spring in Tunisia. Ben Romdhane was
a participant in World Press Photo’s 2013 Reporting Change
initiative, member of the collective “Rawiya” and “Native”.
Zied Ben Romdhane joined Magnum as a nominee in 2019.
Mohamed Mahdy | mohammedmahdy.com
Mohamed Mahdy (Egypt, 1996) is a Visual storyteller based in Alexandria whose work concentrates on the buried and unseen communities in Egypt, as well as cultural and social issues. He believes that immersing himself in disparate communities and firmly believed that by telling these stories you are permanently placing them within the context of the larger community. His work has been exhibited at the 25 Youth Salon and the Ministry of Culture, as well as in Paris biennale. He has exhibited twice with the Ian Parry Scholarship in London and also in Photoville in New York. and in 2018 he was named by The New York Times Lens blog as one of 12 emerging photographers you should know. Currently he is a Magnum fellow.
Razan Alsalah | razanalsalah.com
Razan AlSalah is a Palestinian filmmaker, artist and a teacher,and also a faculty member at Concordia’s Communication Studies department. Razan’s work has been widely shown at various national and international festivals and galleries. Razan is a 2021 Sundance Grantee, 2020 Arab Fund for Arts and Culture Grantee, as well as the recipient of the Latham Award for an Emerging Experimental Video Artist at Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Sunbird Award for Best Narrative Short at Cinema Days Palestine. In her artwork, Razan investigates the material aesthetics of dis/appearance of places and people in the context of colonial image worlds.
Nadia Bseiso | nadiabseiso.net
Nadia Bseiso is a Jordanian documentary photographer based in Amman.
She completed a degree in photography from Florence, Italy in 2011,
returning for a residency in Fondazione Fotografia in Modena, in
2015. She concentrates on long term projects, based on personal
research in geopolitics, history, anthropology and environmental
degradation.
In 2016, she was selected for the Arab Documentary Photography
Program, funded by The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Magnum
Foundation and the Prince Claus Fund, for her project “Infertile
Crescent”. Selected as Time – Light Box female photographers to
follow from around the world, March 2017. She is working with
several local and international NGO’s since 2011. Clients include,
Unicef, The New York Times, The Telegraph, Reuters, Zeit magazine,
the Intercept, The Globe and Mail, U.S News & World Report.
Roï Saade | roisaade.com
Roï Saade is an interdisciplinary artist interested in the
intersectionality between graphic design, photography, and the
arts.
Roi’s process-based practice centers on a close collaboration
between artist, designer, and curator. His approach is complemented
by comprehensive visual research and creative exchange. He is
interested in finding and creating ways to resist systems of
domination and inequality.
As a photographer, Roi’s work attempts to investigate
individual and collective identity and experience through the
documentation of social and personal encounters. He often
collaborates with Tamara Abdul Hadi, his partner in life and vision....
Roï’s virtual studio takes on projects such as branding, arts &
culture projects, and publications. Roï has designed and curated
exhibitions, corporate identities, magazines and specializes in book
design, where he blends his passion for photography and design.
Roï holds an MFA in Graphic Design from USEK University in
Lebanon. He is currently a Research Associate at Access in the
Making research lab at Concordia University, Montreal.
Tamara Abdul Hadi | tamarabdulhadi.com
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
taught photography courses in Palestine, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, the
UAE, Kuwait and Tunisia and Canada.
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....
Abdul Hadi was a founding member of Rawiya Collective, a photography
co- operative of female photographers in the Middle East. She is a
member of
We Are The Medium, an artist collective comprised of interdisciplinary artists
working independently.
She often collaborates with
Roï Saade, her
partner in life and vision.
Tamara holds an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art and
Design.
Her photos have been exhibited in the UAE, Lebanon, Kuwait,
France, the UK, Sweden, Spain, Hungary, Canada and the US.