Thana Faroq is a Yemeni-born photographer, writer, and educator living in the Netherlands. Her multidisciplinary work, which combines photography, textual narratives, and moving images, explores the transformative experiences that have shaped her identity and sense of belonging in both Yemen and the Netherlands. Focused on themes of memory, migration, and intergenerational trauma, her work serves as a visual autobiography, highlighting women’s resilience and the search for belonging in post-disaster contexts. Thana has received several prestigious honors, including the Open Society Foundation Fellowship Grant and the Arab Documentary Fund. She was recognized as ‘One to Watch’ by the British Journal of Photography in 2020 and won the PhotoWien Photo Book Award in 2021 for her book “I Don’t Recognize Me in the Shadows.” Currently, she is a fellow in the first iteration of the ADPP fellowship program.
