Yaqeen Yamani

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WEBsite: @yaqeen_yam

About:

Yaqeen Yamani (she/her, b.1997) is a Yemeni Palestinian photographer and artist who received a BA in Media Studies and Film from the Al-Quds Bard College and is a Fulbright Scholar with an MFA in Photography from Tyler School of Art at Temple University.Yamani is currently a resident at Twelve Arts Gates in Philadelphia and a manatee at Magnum Foundation, Prince Claus Fund, and AFAC. Yamani’s art practice includes photography, video, and printmaking. Her process centers material experimentation to explore themes of identity, rage, and grief. Through the use of language, image and text, Yamani’s current body of work focuses on modes of resistance, intervention, disruption, and reclamation.