Kim Badawi

Born in Paris in 1980, Kim Badawi is American visual anthropologist of Egyptian and Slovenian background - who began his career photographing the plight of refugee families from Mississippi to Texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, in New Orleans.

Selected for publication, by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Kim’s work appears in 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers exhibit and book.

Badawi's The Taqwacores- a history of the American Muslim punk -was released by powerHouse Books, in Spring 2009 and since then has inspired a movie of the same name.

Covering So-called "Arab Spring" from unique vantage points for international media outlets such as CNN, WSJ and Bloomberg. As a fellow for the French American Foundation he produced an in-depth anthropological study of the first Chinese settlements in Northern Africa.

Kim's photography has led him to all parts of Europe, Middle East, Northern America and now is based in Brazil as of the past year ( FIFA World Cup 2015 ).