Photographer and Visual Artist Hajar Benjida Joins INSTITUTE

Hajar Benjida is a Dutch-Moroccan photographer and visual artist based in New York. She graduated from HKU University of the Arts Utrecht in 2019 with a BA in photography. In her personal work, Hajar has a documentary and intimate approach, from photographing some of today’s biggest names in hip-hop to capturing the strip club scene in Atlanta and its impact on the music industry and narratives around women and the agency of their bodies. 

Hajar’s debut exhibition was held at Art Basel at Scope Art Fair Miami 2018 with her project Young Thug as Paintings, made in collaboration with Young Thug himself. She was the recipient of LensCulture’s 2019 Emerging Talent Award and her project, Atlanta Made Us Famous was selected by Unseen as one of nine outstanding graduation projects of 2019, Foam Talent 2021 and the BJP International Photography Award 2021.