Lara Chahine lives and works in Lebanon. She is a self-taught freelance photographer and researcher. Her project “Bless Your Beauty,” created with the Arab Documentary Photography Program is her first long-term documentary project and the starting point of her career as an image-maker. Her approach to photography is spontaneous, and her goal is to interpret the world around her, both contextually and visually. Chahine aims to match the appropriate medium of photography with the themes, message or emotion she is trying to evoke.

The profits (AED438 / $119.25) of each print sold will be given to artists currently in Gaza and the West Bank.

Prints are available for AED495.00 ($134.77). Here are the costs:

• Printing and packaging: AED32.00 ($8.71)
• 5% VAT: AED25.00 ($6.81)
• Shipping: paid additionally by you, the buyer, and goes directly to the shipping company — no profits are generated from this.
• Transfer fees: this cost depends on the recipients choice of transfer method, but this will be covered by the facilitating parties, and will not impact the final profit value

Gulf Photo Plus has been selling artwork by regional photographers since 2013, sharing profits equally. For this sale, all profits will be transferred to the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), which will then be distributed by AFAC to a group of Palestinian image-makers — how they use these funds is then wholly at their discretion. We will publicly provide proof of transfer at the conclusion of the sale.