Muriel Hasbun

Muriel Hasbun (born 1961 San Salvador) is a Washington D.C. based photographer.

Life
Muriel Hasbun graduated from Georgetown University, and from George Washington University, where she studied under Ray K. Metzker.

She focuses on issues of cultural identity and memory. Hasbun's complex ethnic and racial background is heavily influential in her work. Her father's family are Palestinian Christian immigrant's that migrated to El Salvador from Bethlehem while her mother was born in France of Polish-Jewish descent.

She seeks to investigate many of her family's stories that have been silenced through years of oppression. For example, the Holocaust and the prejudice and bias against Palestinians in El Salvador. Hasbun utilizes her art as a method to explore this silencing.

She was originally drawn to photography through her father, an amateur photographer with a dark room in Hasbun's home. Art was a part of her life, as her mother owned the Galería el laberinto (1977-2001) in San Salvador. She ultimately decided on photography as her main art platform due to its ability to capture a particular time or place that can never again be recreated.

She now works and resides in Washington, D.C.