PROFILE

orn in Worcestershire, Laura was raised and educated in the UK, Egypt, Saudi Arabia. Laura is the first Egyptian and Arab to be awarded the prestigious W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Award, which she received for her long-term series . In 2016, she was among the four artists nominated for the prestigious Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, awarded to a photographer who made the most significant contribution to the photographic medium in Europe during the past year. Laura’s work has been published in , and the BBC. In 2020, she became a Canon global ambassador and now divides her time between Cairo and London.