^{Hannah Kirmes-Daly is a multi-award-winning visual journalist and artist. Her practice is based on field research, working collaboratively to address interconnected socio-political dynamics.}

^{Her recent work explores grief and trauma through the lens of deconstructing objective and subjective knowledge systems. These investigations resulted in two experimental mixed-media animation films, exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Berlin in 2023.}

^{Hannah was the British Library’s 2023 Guest Artist where she worked to activate the scientific archives and create installations and workshops addressing climate justice and colonialism.}

^{As a seasoned film director, she has worked with the Border Violence Monitoring Network (2022-2023) to reveal illegal pushbacks at the EU’s external borders, winning the Amnesty International Film Award, the Festivali dei Popolie Film Award, and the FESCAAL Film Festival Award.}

^{As a visual journalist, Hannah has been awarded the Thomson Reuters Migration Media Award for her investigative journalism work with Roshan de Stone and David L. Suber. Her work has been supported by the British Arts Council, Open Society, and the Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung and published in Al-Jazeera, France24, DW, Internazionale, The Telegraph, BBC, and Open Democracy.}

^{Hannah has delivered workshops on artistic practices and visual journalism to researchers, artists and journalists at PUBLIX, Tactical Tech, the Dokumenta in Kassel, Hau Theatre Berlin, Künstlerhaus Berthanien, 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art and worked with marginalized communities in Romania, Lebanon, Georgia, Armenia, France, and Germany.}

^{Hannah is the Founding Director of the creative journalism collective Brush&Bow, which was formed as an experimental space for collaborations between journalists, artists, legal experts, academics, designers, and musicians to produce participatory research and multi-media journalism.}

^{Hannah earned a distinction from the University of Art Berlin (UdK) for her MA in Art in Context and holds a BA in International Development and South Asian Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).}

^{Hannah has a British-German background and has worked throughout Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa looking at modern border regimes. As a queer artist, she navigates the intersection between emotional intelligence, solidarity and human rights.}