Eyes in Gaza
Eyes in Gaza offers an intimate and unfiltered look through the lenses of photojournalists documenting the genocide firsthand. In an era where social media serves as a vital channel for truth and awareness, their work provides a deeply personal account of current events unfolding in one of the world’s longest and most complex conflicts. Each photograph in the exhibition represents a fragment of a larger narrative — a moment of humanity, loss, and resilience captured amid devastation.
This exhibition is comprised of selections from the 2023 Lucie Impact Award honorees and features the photography and Instagram feeds of twenty-two Palestinian photojournalists and press photographers working in the Gaza Strip: Dawoud AboAlkas, Samar Abu Elouf, AbdelHakeem Abu Riash, Mohammed Al Masri, Saher Alghorra, Loay Ayyoub, Motaz Azaiza, Mohammed Baba, Mahmoud Bassam, Mohammed Dahman, Majdi Fathi, Mahmud Hams, Ahmad Hasaballah, Mohammed Jadallah Salem, Suhail Nassar, Haitham Nuralden, Yasser Qudih, Mohammed Talatene, Bashar Taleb, Mohammed Zaanoun, Ahmed Zakot, and Abed Zagout.
Organized by the Lucie Foundation, Eyes in Gaza is a traveling exhibition dedicated to these photographers, who were jointly honored in 2023 with the prestigious Lucie Impact Award. Established to highlight photographers whose images have generated profound awareness of social, cultural, and humanitarian issues, the Impact Award recognizes those whose work transcends aesthetics to inform and move the world. This group of photojournalists was acknowledged for their extraordinary courage in documenting the events in Gaza from the front lines, offering a direct, unmediated perspective that challenges distortion and brings the truth into focus.
