Award-winning photojournalist selected by Time Magazine as one of 34 women photojournalists “whose work you should follow”. Published in NYT, The Atlantic, Vice News, San Francisco Chronicle, The Progressive, NPR, Refinery29, Green Peace, Al Jazeera English, Syria Deeply, the Institute for Middle East Understanding, and a variety of other news organizations, newspapers, and websites. Co-founder of Refugee Eye, a nonprofit organization that supports refugee artists and journalists in visual storytelling. Immigrated to the U.S. in 2016 from Gaza. Dedicated to social justice, human rights, and climate change storytelling. She holds a BA in Faculty of Communication Sciences and Languages from Gaza University.Lara tends to embrace the human perspective through visual storytelling, her work mainly explores the social and political narratives especially for marginalized communities. She captures documentary and artistic images of everyday life and excels at catching light and moments with intimacy and humanity.