Camille Farrah Lenain is a French-Algerian artist & photographer who grew up in Paris, studied Photography at l’ESA in Brussels and at ICP in New York City (virtual). She relocated to New Orleans in 2013, where she teaches at Tulane University and works on long-term projects that challenges societal preconception, exploring the notions of stereotypes, collective memory, and plural identities.

Her work has been published in : The New York Times, Gaze Magazine, Rolling Stone, The Marshall Project, The Washington Post, Marie-Claire, T Magazine, Sierra Magazine, The Bitter Southerner and Libération.

In 2024, she was the winner for the Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture, the USA winner for the Leica Women Foto Prize and a winner for the Aperture Creators Lab. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, including at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Arab World Institute, the CAC, Festival Incadaques, Photoville and PhotoVogue Festival. She was previously an Artist-in-Residence at the Joan Mitchell Center and CPW (Center of Photography in Woodstock).