kim badawi

Born in Paris in 1980, Kim Badawi is American visual anthropologist of Egyptian and Slovenian background - who began his career photographing the plight of refugee families from Mississippi to Texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, in New Orleans.

Selected for publication, by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Kim’s work appears in 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers exhibit and book.

Badawi's The Taqwacores- a history of the American Muslim punk -was released by powerHouse Books, in Spring 2009 and since then has inspired a movie of the same name. Much of Kim's work focuses on hybrid cultures, blurred borders, cross-appropriation as an attempt to shatter visual stereotypes.

While covering Arab uprisings from unique vantage points in for Le Monde in Tunisia and Egypt while Kim created an in-depth anthropological study of the first Chinese settlements in Northern Africa. Kim's photography has led him to all parts of Europe, Middle East, Northern America and now is based in South America where he continues to report while working on personal project focusing on the fusion of antique and contemporary culture.