Souhail Zaatari (b.1983) is a Palestinian / Iranian artist based in London since 2003. Gaining his BA in photography from the London College of Communication in 2008, and recently completing a master’s degree in sociology and photography from Goldsmiths University of London in 2024.
His visual practice reflects on spatial observations to a personal relationship with place. Elements of fine art, street, landscape, and portraiture photography can be found throughout his work.
Inspired by the New Topographics and drawing on works of theorists like, Doreen Massey, Marc Augé and Stuart Hall, Zaatari visually explores notions of place, between personal identity and space, using photography to respond to social and cultural questions, examining the ways societal and structural environments shape personal and collective experiences. His works comment on themes of placelessness, cultural memory, belonging and urban transformation, highlighting the complexities between place and identity in a rapidly changing world.