Rawa Zalkha
Portrait — London, 2026

A note

I'm an architect and urban researcher based in London, currently completing a Masters in Urban Development Planning at the Bartlett, UCL. My work moves between Damascus and the diaspora — looking at how cities hold memory, how identity survives crisis, and how the rebuilding of place is also a rebuilding of self.

I split my time between built work, urban research, and image-making. Photography and documentary film aren't side projects for me — they're how I think out loud. A camera is the fastest way I've found to ask a question of a street, a building, or the people who live there.

Open to commissions, collaborations, and conversation — particularly around heritage, post-crisis cities, and the visual ethnography of place.