Samar Hazboun is a Palestinian photographer based in Bethlehem. She worked as Agence France Presse's photo editor for West Asia and North Africa for four years. She has received grants from the Magnum Foundation, AFAC and Prince Claus Fund. She won a Pollux Award for her self-portrait work and an award from the Khalil Al-Sakakini Centre for Hush, a project on gender-based violence in Palestine.