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Fench-Lebanese AC/junior DoP and art director, I grew up between the tranquility of the French countryside and the tumultuous city of Beirut. Now based between London & Paris, I am developing my practice with video as my preferred medium, following a master in Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art of London. Using a journalistic methodology around the ideas of collective memory and 'filmic politics', I explore subjects of ‘neo-diasporic’ identity.
In recent years I have collaborated with art galleries & museums (Onomatopée (NL) / MUDAC (Lausanne) / La Gaîté Lyrique (Paris)), magazines & studios (ISHKAR (London) / Studio Safar (Beirut)) and pop-up exhibitions (Dutch Design Week).
I joined curator and writer Roisin Tapponi alongside 5 other women; Nour Helou, Reman Sadani, Bella Barkett, Isra Al Kassi, Shahnaz Dulaimy, to be part of Habibi Collective as art director and developer of archival workshops/talks series for the platform. Founded in 2018, Habibi Collective is an open-access resource, digital archive and curatorial platform for women’s filmmaking from South-West Asia and North Africa.
I recently joined the team of Al Hayya, a magazine that publishes literary and visual content on the works, interests and strife of women, bilingually in Arabic and English.
I am part of Divé+ and FALC (Femmes à la caméra), 2 platforms encouraging diversity in French cinéma.
For collaborations, commissions or publications, don’t hesitate to contact me via email at louise.gholam@network.rca.ac.uk.
EDUCATION
Full CV on request via email.
- 2012-2015
Applied Arts High School
École Boulle, Paris, FR
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2015-2019
BA Man&Leisure (socio-political design)
CUM LAUDE GRADUATE
Design Academy Eindhoven, NL
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SEP 2017 - FEB 2018
Minor Program: Radical Ecologies
Design Academy Eindhoven, NL
Tutorship by Studio Thought Collider (London)
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NOV 2017 - DEC 2017
Design Research Space Program
Tutorship by STBY STUDIO (London)
- 2019-2021
MA Visual Communication
Experimental Communication Pathway
Royal College of Art of London, UK