BIO
Mayada is a Croatian-Egyptian-Sudanese videographer, photographer and poet (b. 1990), currently based in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In 2010, she started a career in videojournalism and got a chance to cover political and social news until she moved to Germany in 2016. Her work focuses on socio-political and environmental issues. Mayada currently freelances as a videographer and photographer and gives videography and editing workshops. She is currently doing a masters in Visual Anthropology, Media and Documentary Practices, and a masters in Media Pedagogic.
Her audio-visual research topic in Visual Anthropology is 'Depopulation in Eastern Croatia - How a demographic change caused by emigration is affecting the elderly generation in Požega, Slavonija County'.
Her research topic in Media Pedagogic is 'Digitisation in Schools: How should children at risk of poverty be supported in time of the COVID pandemic’
Member of the European Press Journalists Union (DVPJ - Deutscher Verband der Pressejournalisten)
EXHIBITIONS
2021 Bringing the Private into Public Spaces, Photography by Womxn During the Corona Pandemic | The Journal Collective group photo exhibition and video projection | Curated by Anne Ackermann and Charlotte Schmitz | Kommunales Kino Freiburg, Germany
EDUCATION
2021 - 2023 MA Visual Anthropology, Media and Documentary
Practices | Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster |
Münster, Germany
2021 - 2023 MA Media Pedagogic | Fachhochschule Südwestfalen |
Soest, Germany
2020 Alec Soth: Photographic Storytelling Workshop | Magnum Photos
2020 Fine Art Self-portrait Photography Workshop with Danny Bittencourt
2019 Qualification as an Educational Specialist | IKS, Institut für Bildung und Management | Zell in Wiesental, Freiburg, Germany
2014 Workshop in Data-driven Journalism | Netherlands- Flemish Institute | Cairo, Egypt
2014 Workshop in Visual Storytelling | DMJX, Danish School for Media and Journalism | Aarhus, Denmark
2007 - 2011 BA Mass Media & Communications Studies
Major of TV & Radio Broadcasting | Misr University for Science & Technology | Cairo, Egypt
Scholarships
2021 Alfred Landecker Foundation scholarship, in cooperation
with UNMUTE NOW and Project Together organizations,
for the Open Social Innovation Programme. The
programme supports organizations in Germany that
strengthen the political participation of youth in the
country.
CONTACT
(+49) 176 7793 4722
maja.wadin(at)posteo.net
