This workshop, led by Tamara Abdul Hadi, invites participants to critically engage with visual storytelling practices that challenge and resist hegemonic narratives. Drawing on her extensive experience as a photographer and visual storyteller, Abdul Hadi will guide participants in exploring how images can function as sites of contestation, offering alternative ways of seeing and representing the world.
Through a combination of facilitated discussion and practice-based learning, participants will examine dominant visual frameworks and consider the ethical and political responsibilities of image-makers in responding to them. The workshop will foreground strategies of counter-visuality, encouraging participants to question, disrupt, and reframe prevailing narratives through their own creative approaches.
The session will begin with a presentation of Abdul Hadi’s work alongside selected examples by other practitioners, establishing a critical dialogue around the aesthetic, ethical, and political dimensions of visual storytelling. This will be followed by a hands-on activity designed to translate these concepts into practice. Ideal for artists, researchers, and culturally engaged audiences, this workshop offers a rigorous yet accessible space to develop visual strategies that intervene in dominant representational regimes.
Please email lfatemi@gallery44.org to register for this workshop.
Tamara Abdul Hadi is an Iraqi photographer and educator investigating the links between photography and representations of culture.
Along with being a photographer, Tamara is an educator who has taught in Palestine, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, the UAE, Kuwait, Tunisia and Canada.
Her work has been published in the mainstream media extensively, though she now prefers to work for more independent entities. Her photographs have been exhibited worldwide. She often collaborates with Roï Saade, her partner in life and vision. Abdul Hadi's debut monograph Picture an Arab Man was published in 2022.
