Lebanon Gallery

Dalia Khamissy was born in Beirut. She graduated with a degree in Photography from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Saint-Esprit de Kaslik, Lebanon. Since the beginning she has shown interest in the social and socio-political issues in the Middle East. Her first story in 1998 shows a single mother living in the Lebanese society. In 2002, she traveled to Iraq as a photographer for a humanitarian mission. She returned to the region in 2004 and lived on the border of Jordan-Iraq where she documented the Palestinian and Iranian Kurd refugees stranded in two camps after fleeing the war in Iraq. She has also photographed refugees in Lebanon, mostly Sudanese and Iraqis. In June 2005, Dalia took a job as photo editor for Associated Press in Beirut. After editing the summer 2006 war and its aftermath, she left AP and started working on herown photography focusing on the aftermath of the war and the Lebanese society. Dalia’s work has been exhibited and published internationally. For the workshop Dalia chose to take a more personal and conceptual approach by getting away from the society and its people, riding coastal buses and photographing landscapes.

Email daliakhamissy@hotmail.com