Lara Aburamadan is a Palestinian visual artist and founder of Refugee Eye. Born and raised in Gaza City, now based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she tends to embrace the human perspective through visual storytelling. Her photographs and writings have been published in Time Magazine, New York Times, VICE, The Atlantic, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, The Progressive Magazine, AJ+, and elsewhere.

Lara has been chosen by Time Magazine among 34 women photojournalists around the world, and you should follow their work in 2017.