Gilbert Calleja

Gilbert Calleja (1978) is a documentary photographer and multimedia artist
focusing on long-term socially engaged projects in his native Malta and around
the Mediterranean. His main focus is creative storytelling based on ethnographic
research methods.

In 2020 he 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).

Gilbert has worked as a photojournalist and freelance news photographer and
studied history of art and fine arts at the University of Malta (2000) and the
University of Paris, Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (2004).

He is currently employed as a lecturer in Fine Arts at the University of Malta. 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.