A conversation with Ghada Al Muhanna, a Saudi woman living in Europe, searching through photo archives and sharing her finds on the Internet. A few months ago I found your rich archive of old photos taken mainly in Saudi Arabia. Tell us, how did your adventure in exploring old archives from the Middle East begin? When I moved to... five years ago.
On the memorable January 8, 1959, Fidel triumphantly entered Havana. He had won his "revolutión." I didn't get to talk to him the first time, but I did manage to exchange a few words with Raul Castro, Fidel's brother. Raul told me that in the city of Camaguey they would be trying and dismembering counter-revolutionaries and would I be willing to witness these events? Very politely...
I learned about Ali's photographs from international news outlets. The photographs of this young (born 1999) Syrian photographer became the subject of an international scandal by a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman named Zhao Lijian. The Chinese official used Ali's photos depicting a Syrian boy playing with an artillery shell as "proof" of the misery the United States has brought to Afghan (sic!) children. Ali Haj Suleiman, IdlibProblem...
Long-term documentary projects are not an overly common choice among photographers today. There are several reasons for this. The media lives on fast news, an overwhelming number of photos are published on mass social media - where they also capture the attention of viewers for only a fraction of the time. Many modern photographers seduced by the technical ease of recording digital photographs succumb to mass trends, publishing easily digestible images online,...
Poverty, unemployment and rural overpopulation are the main reasons for labor migration in Asian countries. The main destination of this migration is the oil-rich countries of the Persian Gulf region affiliated with the so-called GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council). Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman). There are several reasons for this. The cultural center of the Middle East is the region....