Presica Chaar

Coming from a background in science and audiovisual production, Presica Chaar has worked across Lebanon, Iraq, and Turkey in project and grant management, supporting feminist, media, and grassroots groups in complex political and social contexts. Her engagement with civil society has been less about career than about inquiry – a sustained questioning of how structures shape meaning, collaboration, and fatigue. Within that trajectory, she has contributed to research, coordination, and project and strategy design, gradually moving away from iNGO frameworks to work more closely with small collectives and grassroots initiatives concerned with gender, media, and accountability. Her current interests move between film, photography, and critical writing, and through dialectics explore how image and language can hold space for contradiction, fragmentation, and care. Having long navigated the NGO industrial complex and its alienation, she now studies cinema and explores a multidisciplinary visual practice. Presica continues to work between languages and disciplines as a photographer, photojournalist, translator, and writer, seeking forms of collaboration and expression beyond institutional structures.