CONTACT iman.aldabbagh@gmail.com | Saudi photographer and photojournalist from and in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (& LA) | LANGUAGES Arabic, English, Armenian | CLIENTS New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, Apple, Zeit, Spiegel, The Sunday Times, Financial Times, GEO, Inc., Runner’s World, PRI, Vice Arabia, etc | MEMBER/CONTRIBUTOR Women Photograph | The Journal | Diversify | EverydayProject: @EverydayMiddleEast + @EverydayAmericanMuslim | Jahanamiya
GRANTS/AWARDS
2019 Selected Women Photograph + Nikon USA grant
2019 Nominee World Press Photo Joop Swart
2018 Selected Women Photograph Year in Pictures
2018 Selected for the New York Times Portfolio Review
2017 Shortlisted, Women Photograph + Pulitzer Center Grant
2016 Selected, Magnum Foundation/Prince Claus Fund/AFAC for Arab Doc Photo Program
2012 The Art of Photography Show, USA
PUBLISHED ASSIGNMENTS
2020 Lockdown Travel Diaries (P41), UNESCO Magazine
2020 Unveiling Hidden da Vinci/Saudi The Wall Street Journal
2020 Through the Eyes of Women Washington Post
2020 Transformed Saudi Berlingske Magazine
2020 Ramadan Like No Other/Coronavirus The New York Times
2020 Saudi Law Granted Women New Freedoms The New York Times
2020 US Forces Return to Saudi Arabia The Wall Street Journal
2020 Middle East’s demographic earthquake Financial Times
2020 Coffeehouses Culture Saudi The New York Times
2019 وجوه ومشاهد من مهرجان “ميدل بيست” الرياض Vice Arabia
2019 Saudi Pensacola Gunman, The New York Times
2019 Women Break Free from Black Abaya Wall Street Journal
2019 Bloomberg/PoliticalWeek (SFGate + TheTelegraph + ThePrint)
2019 Zeit Magazin
2019 The Face of New Saudi Arabia Gulf Business
2019 Libertad al volante El País Semanal
2019 Saudíes tren del desierto El País
2019 Saudi Comedy PRI’s The World
2019 Saudi Women Cyclicts PRI’s The World
2019 Saudi Tourism PRI’s The World
2019 Gender Equality not yet Mainstream in Saudi PRI’s The World
2019 Physique57 opens in Saudi Inc Magazine
2018 “I can’t believe I’m in Saudi Arabia” New York Book Reviews
2018 Saudi launches a new industry: Fun The Los Angeles Times
2018 Defying a Cultural Taboo, Saudi Women Run… Runner’s World
2018 Women in Saudi… newfound freedom..? Sunday Times Magazine
2018 All Hail Saudi’s First Female Ride-App Drivers Wall Street Journal
2018 Autofahren bedeutet Unabhängigkeit Der Spiegel
2018 Saudi Lifts Ban on Women Driving The Sunday Times
2018 The Road Ahead Apple
2018 Saudi’s Women Drivers Take Wheel Washington Post
2018 Saudi’s Economic Revamp – More Jobs Wall Street Journal
2018 Saudi Women on the Front Line of Change Washington Post
2018 Saudi Women Driving Forward The Guardian
2018 Kuwait Soldier Marathon Runner’s World
2018 A New Era in Saudi Arabia Der Spiegel
2018 In Saudi, Movies are Haram No Longer Los Angeles Times
2018 كوميك كون جدة Vice
2018 Saudi Women Get Taste of Open Road The Sunday Times
2018 Women in Saudi Will be Ride-App Drivers, Los Angeles Times
2018 Skamlöst i Saudi Re:Public
2018 Boom di palestre femminili in Arabia Saudita IO Donna
2018 Cinema Saudita Corriere Della Sera
2018 Nuove Saudite Corriere Della Sera
2018 As Saudi relaxes, Artists dream — & worry The Washington Post
2017 لأن قِرط واحد لا يكفي Vice
2017 Wenn ihr starker Arm es will Die Zeit
2017 Generation Gulf Die Zeit
2017 What Everyday Life in the ME Looks Like (slides 2 & 6), AFAR magazine
2017 EverydayEgypt Launches Cairo Exhibit, Ahram Online, Egypt
2016 Where is Layla?, Better Photography Magazine (p54)
2015 Obstetric Violence, Human Rights Approach (p36-37), GIRE, Mexico
2015 GEO International
2015 Eine Frau. Macht Druck, GEO magazine, Germany
2012 Unveiled, Kalimat Magazine
PRESS/FEATURES/INTERVIEWS
2019 Hosted at Mstdfr‘s Azzbda podcast
2019 The Extraordinary Ordinary Everyday Aramco World
2019 Women to Watch (p14) Destination KSA
2019 فن العيب Miraa
2018 Telling Women’s Stories in Saudi Arab News
2018 BBC Arabic, Dunyana
2017 Arab Creativity & Entrepreneurship Fund
2017 Muslim Female Photographers to Know, Refiney29
2015 Using Instagram to Convey Authentic Vision of ME, Huck magazine
2015 Everyday Middle East (p41), Fact magazine
2014 Quieter Picture of ME Taking Place on Instagram, Huck magazine
2012 The Ever-changing Styles of Iman, Arab News
2012 Guest on That Jeddah Podcast
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Barakat Trust opening, UK
2018 Saudi Seen, Dubai
2017 How To Tell When The Rebels Have Won, Beirut
2016 Everyday Projects, Photo Istanbul exhibition, Istanbul
2016 PhonArtSaudi, Riyadh
2015 Middle East Now, Florence
2015 Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai
2014 Photoville, NY
2012 The Art of Photography Show, USA
2011 Art Auction for Humanity, Jeddah
2009 We of the Mountains, Armenian American Art, Pasadena
CONFERENCES/TALKS
2019 Panel Disucussion, Nuqat conference panel, Kuwait City, Kuwait
2019 Speaker at Slidefest (Gulf Photo Plus/Art Jameel) about 3eib Project, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2013 Speaker, International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
2009 Speaker, Project Souarna, Cal Poly Pomona University, Pomona, CA, USA
TEACHING/MENTORING/TALKS
2019 Portfolio reviws of local photographers (Art Jameel/Gulf Photo Plus)
2018 New York Times, ‘This is 18’, mentor, Saudi Arabia
2010-14 Photo instructor at International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
2009 Project Souarna, teaching Iraqi and Palestinian kids at Al Wehdat Palestinian refugee camp, Jordan
EDUCATION 2004 BA, Graphic Design, California Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA