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InstagramGRANTS AND AWARDS
New York Portfolio review 2026 - The New York Times photo department, Photoville and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.
Nominee, JOOP SWART Masterclass 2025/2026 – World Press Photo
Winner Inge Morath Award 2024 MAGNUM
Plat(t)form Fotomuseum WinterthurPorfolio review 2024
Magnum Fondation - Arabic Documentary Photography Fellowship 2024
Winner FotoFemme UnitedPhotography the universal language 2024
Tbilisi Photo Festival - Fertile Ground mentorship project 2023-2024
VII Academy allumni level 1 and 2 documentary photography practice 2023-2024
Paris PhotoStudent Carte Blanche finalist 2023
Magnum FoundationGrantee (ADPP) 2022
Prince Claus FundGrantee (ADPP) 2022
Ettijahat Independent Cultural - Laboratory of Arts Programme 2022
Sara Kontar سارة القنطار
Born in 1996, Sara Kontar is a Syrian artist, photographer, and filmmaker based in Paris. Living in France since 2016 after fleeing the war in Syria, she graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris (ENSAD) with a degree in animation filmmaking. Through photography, installation, video, and cinema, her work explores questions of exile, identity, and collective memory.
A recipient of the Arab Documentary Photography Program (AFAC) and an alumna of the Magnum, VII, Prince Claus, and Women Photograph foundations, she was awarded the Magnum Foundation’s Inge Morath Award in 2024 for her project Therefore, I Cut. Her work has been presented internationally at major institutions including the Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Sharjah Art Foundation, and the A. M. Qattan Foundation.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
A M Qattan Foundation - Loss Marginalia (Ramallah, Palestine Mai 2026-Jan 2027)
L’ATLAS - Untitled (Passport) (Paris, France Nov-Dec 2025)
Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum- ‘Something Very Dear’ (Tbilisi, Georgia Mar-Mai 2025)
Galerie C - Je suis une hors-la-loi (Neuchâtel, Switzerland Jan-Feb 2025)
Sharjah Art Foundation - Vantage Point Sharjah 12: If I Were Another (Sharjah Sep-Dec 2024)
ART EXPLORA - CONTRE COURANT (International 2024-2026)
Arab Film and Media Institute - Banat El Hara (NYC, May 3-5, 2024)
Musée de la Femme - “Photography: the Universal Language.” (Marrakesh, April-October 2024)
Palais de Tokyo - Dislocations (Paris, February-June 2024)
Matossian Gallery - MOMENTS OF BEING (Beirut, September 2023)
Palais de Tokyo - L’AMI INTÉRIEUR (France, February 2022-January 2023)
Centre Pompidou - CE QUI NOUS POUSSE (Paris, September 2022)
Salahin Gallery - Group Exhibition (France, September (Paris, September 2022)