Iris Hassid works and lives in Tel Aviv. Growing up as a daughter of a family working in the Diplomatic Service, Hassid has lived in Thailand, Singapore, London and Israel, a fact that has influenced her work, focusing on issues of Identity and belonging, estrangement, nationality, and community.

 Hassid works mainly in photography and text with full collaboration with those she photographs. Her project and book “A Place of Our Own” is exhibited in the Landesmuseum in Braunschweig Germany in 2025, after it was exhibited in the Jewish Museum in Amsterdam in 2023, and in the Jewish Museum in Hohenems, Austria in 2024.