ABOUT

Victoria grew up in multilingual, multicultural Montreal, Quebec, to Arab-American parents setting the foundation for a life long interest in exploring the dichotomies between the so called developed and developing worlds or the east and west. Specifically, her work deals with the ways in which globalization and social, economic, and political changes affect gender hierarchies as well as existing structures of class, race, and religion in the Middle East region.

Victoria holds a MA in International Development and prior to embarking on a career in photojournalism gained considerable experience in the field of humanitarian assistance working for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees before turning her attention to documenting the people of the region and the events unfolding around them.

Victoria currently resides in Cairo, Egypt where she covers the region as a freelance photographer for Sipa Press. In addition, she has worked for wire services Reuters News Agency, and the European Pressphoto Agency as well as United Nations agencies UNDP, UNICEF, and OCHA\IRIN on a variety of topics including street children, Iraqi refugees, bird flu, and child labor, and the UN Millennium Goals.

Recent publications include the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Globe and Mail, Stern (Germany), Mujer Hoy (Spain) The Daily Star (Lebanon and Egypt), AlAhram Weekly (Egypt), Cairo Magazine (Egypt).