Gilbert Calleja (1978) is a documentary photographer and multimedia artist focusing on long-term socially engaged projects in Malta and around the Mediterranean. His main focus is creative storytelling based on ethnographic research methods.
Gilbert obtained his PhD in Creative Media from the Centre for Research and Education in the Arts and Media (CREAM) at the University of Westminster, London with a study on ‘Ethnography and experimental non-fiction storytelling: relating the experiences of Maltese Fishermen’. Apart from working extensively (2013-present) with fishermen he has also dedicated several years to working with transgender persons (LIMINAL, 2013).
He has studied history of art and fine arts at the University of Malta (2000) and the University of Paris, Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (2004).
His work has been published and exhibited in Malta (2006-present), at the Venice Biennale (2017), in Brussels (2017, 2012), at the Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles (2008) and at the Caochangdi Photospring, Beijing, China (2008), amongst others.
Multimedia non-fiction storytelling
Photography
Ethnography
Mediterranean identities and polyphonic narratives
