Raouf Haj Yehia
Raouf Haj Yehia (b. 1973) is an artist, researcher and curator currently based in Ramallah. He received a degree in sociology from Birzeit University in 2003 and then worked as a teaching assistant in the photography program there for three years. In 2006, he was awarded the UNIDEE artist-in- residency at the Fondazione Pistoletto, Citta Del Arte in Biella, Italy, and was an artist in residence at Funen Art Academy in Denmark in September 2008.
His conceptual projects include the Ghabash newspaper project in the Al-Ayyam newspaper and Zwaya magazine (Beirut) in 2005. Documentation of his Bread for Gaza project was exhibited in the No Holidays in Gaza exhibition at the Contemporary Image Collective in Cairo (2007) and in Mapping, Art Dubai, United Arab Emirates (2009).
Rula Halawani
Rula Halawani (b. 1964) is a Palestinian photographer and educator who lives and works in Jerusalem. Halawani is director of the photography department at Birzeit University. In 2016, she was given a residency fellowship at the Camargo Foundation, in Cassis.
Sama Alshaibi
Sama Alshaibi’s (b. 1973) practice examines the mechanisms displacement and fragmentation in the aftermath of war and exile. Her photographs, videos and immersive installations features the body, often her own, as either a gendered site or a geographic device, resisting oppressive political and social conditions. Alshaibi’s monograph, Sama Alshaibi: Sand Rushes In (New York: Aperture, 2015) presents her Silsila series, which probes the human dimensions of migration, borders, and environmental demise.
Steve Sabella
Steve Sabella (b. 1975) is a Berlin-based artist and author of The Parachute Paradox, published by Kerber Verlag (September 2016). Sabella has utilized large-scale photography, photographic collage, and mixed media in his visual practice. Irrespective of the method or medium, he considers his visual works as a form of research into the genealogy of the image.
Tarek Al-Ghoussein
Tarek Al-Ghoussein (b. 1962) is a Kuwaiti visual artist of Palestinian origin, best known for his work that investigates the margins between landscape photography, self-portraiture and performance art. He moves between abstraction and the explicit conditions found in certain places.