portraiture as catalyst for dialogue
"I Left Everything Behind"
Exploring the experiences of people internally displaced by conflict.(Central African Republic & Chad, 2018-2019)
"The 90 minute dream"
Facing the experiences of 11 Senegalese footballers and the human impact of the beautiful game.(Senegal, 2018)
"Human Beings, Inside and Outside"
a series of self-portrait workshops inside prisons and portrait happenings with detainees and their family members on the outside.(Colombia, 2015)
"Ever present, ever absent"
working with people whose loved ones have gone missing due to armed conflict (Colombia, 2014)
"the investors"
facing gentrification and the changing times of Asheville, North Carolina’s River Arts District (USA, 2012)
Ben Betsalel travels the world conducting portrait happenings that explore humanitarian and social themes through the lived experiences of the people he paints and writes about.