rita kabalan photography ريتا قبلان

Rita Kabalan is a Lebanese American photojournalist based in Beirut. Her work has focused primarily on refugees/displacement, migration, uprisings, and environment. She covered the Egyptian revolution in 2013, refugee crisis in Europe in 2015, the South Sudanese refugees in Northern Uganda in 2017, and the revolution in Lebanon in 2019 where she is now covering the economic crisis. She ran the visual documentation of the environmental waste crisis in Lebanon for the Waste Management Coalition, and has taught photography workshops at the Migrant Community Center in Beirut. Her work on Lebanon's October Revolution was recently showcased at PCNW gallery in Seattle for their 24th juried photography exhibition and other photography work has been published in Le Temp, Foreign Policy, Middle East Eye, Guernica Magazine, The Public Source, among other outlets. Rita is also a contributor to the EveryDay Middle East Instagram account and a member of Women Photograph.