Joumana Jamhouri is a Lebanese photographer. She graduated from the New York Institute of Photography (NYIP) and specializes in industrial and architectural photography, as well as landscape and portrait photography. She currently lives in Lebanon and travels extensively.
Her clients include, among others, Sidem, the Matelec Group (Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, and France), the National Cement Company, Pikasso, the Delmoon Group, Pepsi, Almaza, the René Moawad Foundation, and several other NGOs.
She also taught photography for many years at the “Université pour tous” at Saint Joseph University.
Her work has been published in several magazines and presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Lebanon, Abu Dhabi, Mexico, Washington, Munich, São Paulo, Paris, and at the prestigious MoMA in New York. In August 2014, she held her largest solo exhibition to date at the renowned Beirut Exhibition Center in Lebanon. In May 2019, she presented a solo exhibition titled Le Chemin du Retour at Galerie Tanit in Beirut. She also exhibited at Paris Photo in 2023 and 2024 with Galerie Tanit.
She has illustrated various books such as Tripoli by Nina Jidejian and The Hill of Swallows by Help Lebanon and contributed to Independence 05, The Beirut Spring by Quantum and Dar An-Nahar. She was commissioned to be the photographer for the 2010 annual report of Crédit Agricole Suisse and for the Baalbeck Festival program in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. Her first monograph, Lebanon and the Sea, was published in December 2008.
Joumana Jamhouri is represented by Galerie Tanit Beirut.
