About
Dean Majd (b. 1990) is a self-taught lens-based artist born and based out of Queens, New York. Born of Palestinian migrants, he studied International Relations with a focus on the Middle East at The City College of New York. Majd began forming his intimate and cinematic visual language after being given his first camera at seven years old by his mother. His diaristic work primarily engages with trauma and how it manifests within contemporary masculinity when negative emotions are repressed, particularly personal and collective grief in relation to addiction, violence, and self-destruction. His work also explores the complexities of the Arab-American dichotomy and the Palestinian diaspora, and often times how those overlap.
Majd has been profiled by Aperture, Matte, AnOther Magazine, GQ Middle East, and Sekka, and has made editorial work for The New York Times, New York Magazine, GQ Middle East, and The Face, among others. His work has been on display at the Museum of the City of New York part of ‘New York Now: Home’ (2023), and he has lectured at Pratt Institute of the Arts. He is passionate about cinema, immensely devoted to his friends (his chosen family), and a proud New Yorker. He believes that love, above all else, is the driving force behind everything he does.
Aperture Profile:
Introducing: The Queens Photographer Building a Legacy for His Friends
Inquiries: deanmajd@gmail.com
Social: instagram
Commercial portfolio available upon request*