Born in 1994, Sarah Ben Amar started practicing photography when her father gave her a compact camera at 17. She continued photographing throughout her studies in British and American literature and history. She also became interested in film during that period. Her primary focus is on the relationship between the collective and the individual and how space shapes or mirrors that relationship. Ben Amar has been a resident in the 13th edition of ARTIFARITI (Western Sahara), as well as in the Derb Cinema documentary film residency (Tlemcen, Algeria). Her project Sandcastles (2019-2024) has been awarded the Tasweer Qatar’s 2023 Sheikh Al Thani Project Award. In 2024, she became a mentee with Through The Lens Collective. She has exhibited her photography in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt and Algeria.
