KHOLOOD EID

Kholood Eid (b. 1987) is a Palestinian American documentary photographer, filmmaker and educator based in New York City. Her work blends portraiture, conceptual and reportage practices using visual art, text and audio. Clients include The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, The New Yorker, TIME and others.

In 2024, she was an Artist in Residence at the Center for Photography at Woodstock.

Eid (alongside New York Times colleagues Michael H. Keller, Gabriel J.X. Dance and Nellie Bowles) received a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in 2020.

Eid has a masters degree in photojournalism from the University of Missouri and an amazingly strange dog named Professor. Professor is a Good Girl. In 2023, the Wet Nose Pawject was launched as an outlet for her obsessive love for dogs.

She’s a member of National Geographic’s Photo Society.

|| CLIENTS||

The New York Times
National geographic
TIME
the new yorker
The Wall Street Journal
CNN
DOVE
NPR
ACLU
Lifetime
Bloomberg
Reuters
ESPN's The Undefeated
the Phoenix New Times
video editing for TIME.com and VSCO
a variety of Midwestern publications

|| Recognition ||

2024: CPW Woodstock artist-in-residence

2020: ROBERT F. KENNEDY JOURNALISM AWARD: Domestic Print (alongside colleagues Michael H. Keller, Gabriel J.X. Dance & Nellie Bowles for the New york times series “exploited”)

2020: American photography 36 selected winner

2019: New York Times Portfolio Review

2018: PDN's 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch

2017: IWMF Adelante Reporting Fellowship

2016: Eddie Adams Workshop

2015: New York Times Portfolio Review

|| Exhibitions & Artist Talks || || teaching ||

2023: Adjunct professor, Columbia university

2020-2022: Report for america mentor

2018-2020: Adjunct professor, Columbia university

2017-2019: adjunct professor, new york university

2013-2019: Teacher + volunteer, Bronx Documentary center

2016-2017: teacher, NYC salt

2025: SOLO EXHIBITION, “BETWEEN HERE & THERE,” PHOTOVILLE, NYC

2024: “Balanced or biased? assessing us media coverage of the israel-gaza war, and why it matters,” Syracuse University

2023: Solo Exhibition, “waiting to be alive again,”
Photoville, NYC

2023: Women Photograph Panel, “What We See:
Women & Nonbinary Perspectives Through the Lens,”
International Center of photography, nyc

2022: solo exhibtion, “Narrative Portraits,”
Kooyumjian Gallery

2020: Group exhibition, “trump revolution:
immigration,” Bronx documentary center

2019: Documentary Family Awards Judge

2018: Group Exhibition, “Diagnosed,”
Davis Orton Gallery, NYC

2018: PDN 30 Photoville Group Exhibition, NYC

2018: PDN 30 Photoville Panel, NYC

2018: Women Photograph Photoville Panel, NYC

2018: Afropunk Exhibition & Panel, Detroit

2018: Making Meaning With Young People at Half King, NYC

2018: Developing Personal Projects:
Women Photograph x Photo Brigade Panel, NYC

2017: Gender, Race & Photography Panel at
Columbia University, NYC

2017: Documenting Detroit Guest Speaker, Detroit

2017: ICP’s Teen Academy Photo I, NYC

2015: Open Show Screening “Until Her” at Half King, NYC

2015: Solo ExhibitION & Artist Talk, “Intersecting Parallels:
Women In Haifa,” University of Delaware

|| Contact ||

kholoodeid@gmail.com

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