“I always find myself observing – delicately framing images in my mind…”

Hala spent the majority of her life in her Native Amman Jordan, until going to Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts in 1995. In 1999, Hala completed her higher education with a BA in Writing, Literature, Publishing and Photography. She found herself inspired to document the vivid contrasts between her culture and the street life of Boston.

In 2001, she relocated to London, England where she completed a Post-Graduate Degree in Photography at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design; it was there that she found herself drawn to creating portraits and documenting set stills.

Captivated by the emotional stories that are captured in photographing people – Hala continues to integrate her Eastern and Western cross cultural perspectives in her work and art exploring various themes politically and culturally.

Hala sees her subjects as case studies  – Often going deep into the details of their lives .. She is without a doubt exceptionally meticulous with her process. Her astonishing attention to the finest details in her portraits is the art. She describes her art as intensely personal – a perfectionist by nature, she is unwilling to compromise on the integrity of her work.

Hala Mufleh’s portraits are emotion filled, delicately crafted moments in time. Hala doesn’t just ‘take’ photographs; she constructs them – through a very systematic process. With the eye of a painter, her method combines layers of shade with subtle use of texture that creates, in her final portraits … a motionless emotion.

Raw, honest and poetic – theatrical at times – Hala’s work is often described as curiously still … mysterious … profoundly silent…