Omar Imam (b. 1979, Syria; lives in the Netherlands) is a photographer and video/installation artist. His photographic works oscillate between mundane documents and sketches of utterly inconceivable dreams. Using irony and a conceptual approach, Imam responds to the violent situation in Syria. After leaving Damascus in late 2012, Imam began making fictional short films and often must publish his work under a pseudonym.
Imam’s Live, Love, Refugee has been exhibited in 14 countries worldwide, and his work has been published in Aperture, the Huffington Post, Il Manifesto, the New York Times, and Zeit Online, among others. He received the 2017 Tim Hetherington Visionary Award for his latest project, Syrialism, and is also an artist in residence at the Rijksakademie (2018–2019).