Laura Boushnak

Laura Boushnak is a Kuwaiti-born Palestinian photographer based in Sarajevo. Her work mainly focuses on the Arab world, looking at issues that she finds stem from her own personal experience of gender, education, and the aftermath of war.

After receiving a degree in Sociology from the Lebanese University in Beirut in 1999, Boushnak infused her interest in social issues with her passion for the visual arts and began her career as a photographer for the Associated Press in Lebanon and later worked with Agence France-Presse (AFP). Boushnak’s experience includes covering hard news in conflict zones such as the war in Iraq and the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.