Laura Boushnak

Place: Kuwait City

Born: 1976

Biography:

Largely known as a photographer, Laura Boushnak is a Kuwaiti-born Palestinian artist who focuses on women, literacy, and education reform in the Arab world. Born in 1976 in Kuwait City, she began her photography career covering news for the Associated Press agency in Lebanon.

Early Life and Career

After completing a BA in sociology at the Lebanese University in Beirut in 1997, Laura Boushnak started her photography career as a photo editor and photographer for the French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) at its Middle East hub in Cyprus and its headquarters in Paris. Her nine-year wire experience included covering hard news in conflicts such as the war in Iraq and the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.

Notable Works

Some of her notable works include I Read I Write, a documentary project that she began in 2005, which documents girls and women changing their lives with education in Egypt, Yemen, Kuwait, Jordan, and Tunisia. This project has been exhibited internationally and has received numerous awards, including the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund in 2012 and the Arab Documentary Photography Program in 2014.

• Laura Boushnak is also a member of the Rawiya collective, a group of seven photographers from the Middle East who collaborate on projects and exhibitions.
• Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, MODEM Museum, and Sharjah Art Museum.
• Laura Boushnak has given a TED talk about her education project, which went online on the TED main website.

Importance of Her Work

and literacy are crucial themes in Laura Boushnak's work. Her photographs have been published by many international newspapers and magazines, such as The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and Le Monde. Getty Images awarded Laura Boushnak a special grant for editorial photography in 2014 to continue her I Read I Write project. Her work has been acquired by the British Museum and private collectors. https://Wikioo.org/@/Laura-Boushnak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Boushnak Note: The biography is written in English as per the instruction, but it can be translated into German. However, the translation of the text into German is not provided here.