Artist: Amira Karaoud | Location: Lousiville, KY
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Artist: Amira Karaoud | Location: Lousiville, KY
Lousiville, KY
Born and raised in Tunisia, Karaoud migrated to the USA in 2002. After a ten year career on Wall Street, she left to pursue her dream and became a documentary photographer. In 2013, when she started her artistic endeavor, she documented stories on women’s roles in their communities around the world, focusing particularly on tribal communities in Oceania and Asia. Karaoud exhibited the work internationally and in several galleries in Louisville where she has resided since 2014. Since then she has produced, exhibited and published work on women’s labor and exploitation in rural areas of Tunisia and Southeast Asia. Karaoud received received grants from the Great Meadows Foundation as well as Kentucky Foundation for women. In 2018, she won the International Photography Contest Shining a Light award, organized by the Muhammad Ali Center. In same year her photo essay on womanhood and nationhood of Sahraoui women was published in Advances in Gender Research.
Artist Website
http://www.amirakaraoud.com