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Women Picturing Revolution
November 16, 2016 at the ICP School
To watch the full recording visit: icp.org/browse/archive/media/women-picturing-revolution
Tanya Habjouqa is an award-winning photographer, journalist, and educator. Her practice links social documentary, collaborative portraiture, and participant observation. Her principal interests include gender, representations of otherness, dispossession, and human rights, with a particular concern for ever-shifting sociopolitical dynamics in the Middle East. Trained in journalism and anthropology, with a master of arts in Global Media and emphasis on Middle East politics from SOAS University of London, Habjouqa produces in-depth narratives that offer nuanced alternatives to mainstream media depictions of her subjects. Her work often reflects a desire to trace common humanity. Based in East Jerusalem, Habjouqa is half-Texan, half-Jordanian, with Circassian ancestry, possessing a diverse background rich in narrative, folklore, black humor, and hospitality.
Habjouqa’s project Occupied Pleasures received support from the Magnum Foundation, and achieved a World Press Photo award in 2014. Culminating in a namesake book by FotoEvidence, it was heralded by Time magazine and the Smithsonian as one of the best photobooks of 2015. Habjouqa’s work has been exhibited worldwide and is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Institut du Monde Arabe, and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. She is a founding member of Rawiya, the first all-female photography collective from the Middle East.
For more ICP events, visit: icp.org/events
Women Picturing Revolution
November 16, 2016 at the ICP School
To watch the full recording visit: icp.org/browse/archive/media/women-picturing-revolution
Tanya Habjouqa is an award-winning photographer, journalist, and educator. Her practice links social documentary, collaborative portraiture, and participant observation. Her principal interests include gender, representations of otherness, dispossession, and human rights, with a particular concern for ever-shifting sociopolitical dynamics in the Middle East. Trained in journalism and anthropology, with a master of arts in Global Media and emphasis on Middle East politics from SOAS University of London, Habjouqa produces in-depth narratives that offer nuanced alternatives to mainstream media depictions of her subjects. Her work often reflects a desire to trace common humanity. Based in East Jerusalem, Habjouqa is half-Texan, half-Jordanian, with Circassian ancestry, possessing a diverse background rich in narrative, folklore, black humor, and hospitality.
Habjouqa’s project Occupied Pleasures received support from the Magnum Foundation, and achieved a World Press Photo award in 2014. Culminating in a namesake book by FotoEvidence, it was heralded by Time magazine and the Smithsonian as one of the best photobooks of 2015. Habjouqa’s work has been exhibited worldwide and is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Institut du Monde Arabe, and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. She is a founding member of Rawiya, the first all-female photography collective from the Middle East.
For more ICP events, visit: icp.org/events
