Karim Ben Khelifa

Karim Ben Khelifa is an award winning Tunisian war correspondent, photojournalist and director who has freelanced regularly for Time Magazine, Vanity Fair, Le Monde, New York Times Magazine.

In 2012, he became the Carroll Binder fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. From 2013 to 2017, he was an Artist-in-Residence at the Open Documentary Lab then Visiting Artist at the Imagination Computation Expression Lab, both based at MIT.

During this time, he created the breakthrough VR and AR journalism project “The Enemy” which premiered in Paris in 2017 and has been presented in New York City, Tel Aviv, Boston, Montreal, Seoul and Geneva amongst other places.

Since 2018, Karim is an advisory board member of the American Documentary Interactive at PBS and at the Center for Advanced Virtuality at MIT.

He is currently directing his new project, 7 Grams, produced by Lucid Realities, France Televisions and PBS.