elsie
haddad

Born in 1982, Elsie Haddad is a documentary photographer based inBeirut. 

Her work revolves around transition and change, as well as around places that hold memories and been witness to different eras and events. She is interested in people and their stories, and look for ways of sharing it. She likes to push the boundaries of the genre sometimes bringing my own fiction to the story.

In 2015, her project 'Bogota' was exhibited in Berlin and Beirut before winning the Photomed Festival Portfolio Award. Her series 'The SandAlong The Way' was also exhibited in Berlin, Jordan and Lebanon. Subsequently, she received the ADPP grant for her project 'Stranded - On Life After Imprisonment' which was exhibited during the Golf Plus Photo week in Dubai in 2019. In 2016, she received the Boghossian Award for her body of work.

Since 2019, she is a member of Collectif 1200, a collective of 11 Lebanese photographers, working on topics related to Lebanon and the current situation. Together they showed their work in FAB (Festival des Arts de Bordeaux) in 2021 and in Casa Arabe during Photo España 2022.

She also leads workshops in several regions of Lebanon, introducing children to photography.