Farida Hamak
Algerian-French · b. 1950
Photography
DESCRIPTION
Farida Hamak is a photographer born in Algeria who moved to France in 1956. She began her career as a war reporter in the 1980s, working for agencies like Viva and Sipa Press to document conflicts in Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. Her later artistic work shifted toward fashion and projects exploring memory, the history of the Arab world, and the "traces" left by conflict and exile. She is the co-director of Galerie Regard Sud in Lyon.