Aspects in Photography

Majed Alzaabi

His work focuses on wildlife and humanitarian projects in Africa. He has received international recognition for his work and actively offers lectures, and training courses throughout the Arab region on the subject of photography. Alzaabi's photography puts into focus and shows us a different perspective when photographing wildlife. In this photograph the stripes of the zebra are taken to a new dimension, appearing as an organic geometric pattern in nature.

Bad Bad Images tries to highlight violence without attempting to stage or reconfigure it. The screen has obliterated the distance between the event, the image and its perception, deconstructing these images to separate them from their contexts and reducing them to their elemental component: the pixel. And through this poetic transfer, they are then redrawn to create an artwork.

Samer Mohdad

Mohdad is a Lebanese-Belgian photographer that has been documenting the Arab world from an inside and intimate perspective, showing us a different side than what is usually portrayed in the media.

From an image of Palestinians arriving back at the camp after having marched to the Israeli border to protest against their deportation, to a father and daughter inside a mosque in Yemen, the approach he takes is without judgment, showing us parts of everyday life with remarkable imagery.

Dalia Khamissy

Khamissy’s work revolves around the socio-political stories of the Middle East, namely the aftermath of Lebanon’s wars and its social issues. Her ongoing project The Missing of Lebanon (2010 – to date) documents the estimated 17,000 missing from the 1975-90 Lebanese civil war.

She photographs mothers who lost their loved ones, either kidnapped or taken away by force. The way she photographs her subjects, delicately and intuitively, exposes underlying emotions, subtly giving the viewer an in-depth sense of the story. The same is true when her photographs show items belonging to those who were lost; one is concious that something is missing.

Zsolt Asztalos

Asztalos photographed unexplored bombs from WWII for this conceptual series, which is originally part of an installation. Each bomb has its own story, which is essentially one of two kinds. Bombs may explode and thus fulfill their role as objects made specifically for the purpose of destruction, and then enter history books and the personal histories that families maintain.

The other story is that of the malfunctioning device as it leaves behind its original function, assumes a life of its own, starts writing a narrative and becomes director of our lives through the contingency it introduces. It stays with us humans as it generates and symbolizes conflicts among us. In Asztalos’s work, they may symbolize political conflicts, or stand for the time bombs of consumer societies, or they may represent issues in private life. The tension in the air is almost palpable and the question is only when will it explode.

Mohammed AlKouh

Alkouh is a self-taught Kuwaiti artist who has explored different aspects of art since his childhood. Growing up facing difficulties to adapt with reality he developed a great nostalgia to an era he never lived, an era where everything was romantic and beautiful.

With his sensitive photographic techniques he reinterprets his subconscious in staged realities that create a contrast between past and present, which resulted in what looks like a dream that allows him to be here and there.