Blink Network – Challenging Visual Stereotypes in the Arab World | LensCulture

Challenging Visual Stereotypes in the Arab World – Interview with Tanya Habjouqa | LensCulture

A former photojournalist describes setting aside her assignments and thus engaging more deeply and originally with her subjects in Palestine

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As a freelancer I always try to find different ways in, and that comes from my background in anthropology. I worked on heroin addiction in the Old City, and on the LGBT communities that were bringing together Jewish and Palestinian communities. I began to look at it from a different lens when I married a Palestinian and became pregnant. This step helped me analyse the “black-humoured opera” on a deeper level.