Tanya Traboulsi is a photographer based in Beirut. Her work explores highly personal themes of belonging, identity and memory, using the image as a narrative tool. Her practice often combines her photography with material from her family archive, both of which frequently center around Beirut as a significant recurring theme.

Her work has been exhibited internationally in both solo and group exhibitions. Her most recent work, Beirut, Recurring Dream, has been shown in Belgium, France, Dubai, and Morocco. Her collaborative project Le Rocher is currently on view at Mucem in Marseille. In recent years, she has also exhibited at Kunsthalle Wien, Beirut Art Center, Bildraum 01, and numerous other venues.

Tanya’s photographs have appeared in publications like Monocle, Konfekt Magazine, It’s Nice That, Architectural Digest, Brownbook, The Wire and many others. Her body of work documenting the Lebanese alternative music scene was assembled in the 2010 publication Untitled Tracks: On Alternative Music in Beirut. Her monograph, entitled Lost Strange Things: On not finding home, was published by Triton in 2014. Her book A Sea Apart, bringing together photographs from her series Beirut, Recurring Dream, was published by Out of Place Books in November 2024.

Tanya’s first short film Son of the sun (2021) recounts the explosion in the port of Beirut in August 2020 and has been screened at renowned film festivals such as DIAGONALE ‘23, LE FIFA and IDFA.
In 2013, she was awarded The Boghossian Foundation Prize for the series Seules.

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IN COLLECTIONS
ROME
The National Museum of XXI Century Arts - MAXXI
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna (GNAM)
VIENNA
Albertina
University of Applied Arts
BOGOTA
Fotomuseo