Gilbert Calleja (b.1978) is a documentary photographer focusing on long-term socially engaged projects in his native Malta and around the Mediterranean. 

Currently a practice-based PhD researcher at the Centre for Research and Education in the Arts and Media (CREAM) at the University of Westminster, London. He is interested in collaborative ethnographic processes and multimedia representations of identities in poetic non-fiction storytelling.

Gilbert has worked as 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 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2004).

Speaks English, French, Italian and Maltese.