Tanya Habjouqa is an award-winning photographer, journalist and educator whose practice links social documentary, collaborative portraiture and participant observation and whose principal interests include gender, representations of otherness, dispossession and human rights, with a particular concern for the ever-shifting sociopolitical dynamics in the Middle East. Tanya trained in Journalism and Anthropology and has an MA in Global Media with an emphasis on Middle East Politics from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She produces in-depth narratives that offer nuanced alternatives to mainstream media depictions of her subjects, exemplified by Occupied Pleasures, her project depicting the every day lives of Palestinians on the West Bank and in Gaza. The work received support from the Magnum Foundation, achie ...