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Tanya Habjouqa
A Jordanian-Texan photographer, Tanya Habjouqa's documentary practice stems from long-term investments and collaborative methodology, blending ethnography and investigative reportage. Her use of absurdism is intentional to her ethnographic work, bridging politics and creative vision. She is a mentor for the acclaimed Arab Photography Documentary Program. There is a layer of gravitas beneath Habjouqa’s work, making her a rare breed of photographer able to seamlessly blend light-hearted and hard-hitting. She produces in-depth narratives that offer nuanced alternatives to mainstream media depictions of her subjects. Habjouqa is a member of Noor photo agency and a founding member of Rawiya.

Early Life
Habjouqa was born in Amman to a Circassian -Jordanian father and a Texan mother. Raised between Texas,USA and the Middle East she considers them both home.

Education
Trained in journalism and anthropology, she holds an MA in Global Media and Middle East Politics from University of London SOAS. She holds a B.A in anthropology from the

Career
Habjouqa is an artist, educator, and member of NOOR Images. With a focus on gender, identity, and socio-political issues in the Middle East, there is always an intuitive sense of metaphor beneath her work. She takes on a series-based approach, immersed in research and interlaying journalistic, academic, conceptual and documentary practices.

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 photo books of 2015. She has worked with clients such as Amnesty International to make multi-country media campaigns.

Her work has been exhibited worldwide and is in the permanent collections of the  MFA  Boston,  Institut du Monde Arabe, and the Carnegie Museum of art. Habjouqa is represented by East Wing Gallery in Doha, Qatar.

She is a mentor on the groundbreaking educational initiative Arab Documentary Photography Program, organized by Magnum Foundation, Prince Claus Foundation, and AFAC, teaching workshops internationally.

Habjouqa served as a judge for the World Press Photo Contest in 2017 and master for the Joop Swart Masterclassin 2015.

Awards
Winner of the World Press Photo Contest, Daily Life in 2014 for her series Occupied Pleasures.

Book Publications

 * Occupied Pleasures, by Tanya Habjouqa, 2015.


 * She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, by Kristen Gresh with a foreword by Michket Krifa, 2013.


 * What it Means to be Palestinian: Stories of Palestinian People hood, Dr. Dina Matar, I.B Taurus, April 2010.


 * A Privilege to Die, Inside Hezbollah's Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel, Thanassis Cambanis, September 2010.

Online Publications

 * https://www.topic.com/the-palestinian-sperm-smugglers


 * https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/05/global-look-inside-ramadan-dampened-coronavirus/


 * https://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/visuel/2016/03/23/la-filiere-americaine-des-colonies-israeliennes_4888529_3218.html


 * https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/05/israels-refusal-to-grant-palestinian-refugees-right-to-return-has-fuelled-seven-decades-of-suffering/


 * https://harpers.org/archive/2019/09/common-ground-archeology-israel-palestine/

Exhibits

 * MFA Boston
 * Institut du Monde Arabe
 * Carnegie Museum of Art
 * East Wing Gallery in Doha, Qatar