Gabriella Demczuk is a Lebanese-American visual artist, spatial researcher and educator.

Her work draws on the disciplines of political ecology, visual and material culture, and media theory to examine abstraction as a mechanism of power, particularly as it shapes environmental politics and food sovereignty. She approaches material as an archive of environmental knowledge, capable of sensing and recording conditions of the land, which she brings into the image-making process. This creates images that are evidentiary rather than solely representational, a method of “ground-truthing” that contests abstraction—a framework she is currently building.

Gabriella’s image-based and materially driven practice is informed by her decade-long experience as a member of the White House press, where she photographed three presidential administrations, Washington politics, and stories across the US related to immigration and environmental policy for The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, National Geographic, and various other publications.

Her photographic work has been recognized by Pictures of the Year International, The White House News Photographers Association, American Photography, the Magnum Foundation, the British Journal of Photography, and Politico’s Power List. She has exhibited and presented at the Saatchi Gallery (London), Fotografiska (New York City), The Annenberg Space of Photography (Los Angeles), Format 24 Photography Festival (Leicester), The Angkor Photo Festival (Siem Reap), Zoom International Photo Festival (Saguenay), Photoville (Brooklyn), and the Houston Center of Photography.

She is co-founder of Al-Wah’at, an artist-research collective building communal and ecological practices of care and repair in response to growing aridity in the Mediterranean. They are 2025 residents at the Jan Van Eyck Academy, 2023 LINA fellows, and recipients of the 2023 COAL prize for art and ecology.

Gabriella is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art where she teaches Media Studies and Environmental Architecture. She holds a graduate degree with distinction from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London and an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts and Journalism from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.