Bio

Gabriella Demczuk is a Lebanese-American artist, journalist, and spatial researcher whose work focuses on the issues of political ecology, the proprietary modes of abstraction, and colonial/capitalist land practices. Over the last ten years she has been working as a member of the White House press, photographing three presidential administrations, Washington politics, and stories across the U.S. related to immigration and environmental policy for The New York Times, TIME, National Geographic, and various other publications. Recently her political work has been exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery in London as part of the show America in Crisis (2022) and her salt prints of ghost forests were presented at Fotografiska in New York City as part of Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest installation at Madison Square Park (2021). She is co-founder of Al-Wah’at, an artist-research collective committed to developing spatial, community, and ecological practices around arid lands and futures. Gabriella is an Associate Lecturer of Media Studies in the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art. 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.

Select Accolades

2023, Prix COAL, Al-Wah’at

2023, “Soil Futures” Residency, British Council, Sakiya—Art, Science, and Agriculture, Palestine

2020, U.S. Fulbright Scholar, Finalist

2020, Howard Chapnick Grant, W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, Finalist

2020, The White House News Photographers Association, As the Seas Rise - Feature Stories, First Place

2019, British Journal of Photography, “Ones to Watch"

2018, PDN 30, "Emerging Photographers"

2017, Politico Playbook , Power List, “The New Guard”

2017, Getty Reportage, “Emerging Talent"

2016, Magnum Foundation, Inge Morath Award, Finalist

2016, Pictures of the Year International, Baltimore Sings the Blues - Community Awareness Award, Judge's Special Recognition

Editorial Clients

The Atlantic, CNN, Barron’s, Bloomberg Businessweek, Buzzfeed, Das Magazin, ELLE, ESPN, Education Week, The Guardian, Harper’s Magazine, Internazionale Magazine, National Geographic Magazine, National Public Radio, New America, Oxford American, Rolling Stone Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, The Southern Foodway Alliance, The Texas Observer Magazine, TIME, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post