Year
2019
Location
Amsteram, Netherlands
Amount
$34,000
Thana Faroq (b. 1989, Yemen; lives in the Netherlands) is a documentary photographer and storyteller. In 2016, Faroq was awarded a Break the Silence scholarship to pursue her MA in documentary photography and photojournalism at the University of Westminster in London. Her work consists of personal reportage addressing themes of memory, boundaries, and violence. She focuses on collaborative storytelling projects to tell personal anecdotes of displacement and migration.
Previously, Faroq worked with various international NGOs in Yemen on stories about displaced women and children. Her work has been featured by several media outlets, including Aljazeera, BBC, CNN, Huffington Post, and World Press Photo’s Witness.
Term
January 2019–July 2020