Carole Alfarah
Women Photograph
Madrid, Spain
Carole Alfarah (1981, Syria), Visual Storyteller and multimedia editor uses the visual narrative to tell personal, humanitarian, and socially conscious stories that engage audiences and create awareness about vital subjects.
Carole’s projects are extended through different platforms such as editorial, books, exhibitions, installations, and films. Her work has been shown widely in festivals, and museums also published internationally in numerous international media outlets. Alongside her work collaboration with international humanitarian organisations and press photo agencies.
Carole obtained a master's in Photography and Project Management from EFTI School of Photography and Cinema in Madrid, Spain.
At the beginning of her career in 2009, she followed a one-year training in Photojournalism by the World Press Photo Foundation.
2020, she received the National Geographic Society COVID-19 Fund for journalists to realise her project about Pandemic Survivors.
2020, nominated for the Joop Swart Masterclass by the World Press Photo Foundation.
2019, nominated for reGeneration4, by Le Musée de l'Elysée Lausanne, Switzerland.
2016, she received IWMF’s Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists.
2015, she received the Roberto Villagraz grant by EFTI on her project My Beloved Broken Home. 2011, she won the UNICEF prize for the Arab Media Award on Child Rights.
Carole is currently based in Spain, and divides her time between commissioned work, personal projects, and teaching.
2016 - 'International Women's Media Foundation’ Award , 2015 - Roberto Villagraz grant, 2011 - UNICEF prize for Arab Media Award
- Arts
- Audio capture
- Breaking news
- Conflict
- Editorial
- Events
- Interview
- Military embed
- Portrait
- Reporting
- Video editing
- Arabic
- English
- Spanish
- French
