Al-liquindoi Photography Workshops is developing a series of production workshops in the Middle East as part of Moving Walls: A Documentary Photography Exhibition. An international photography exhibition, Moving Walls is curated and sponsored by the Open Society Institute, a private grant operating and making foundation based in New York City.
In August 2006 the exhibition and workshop were hosted by The Third Line Gallery in Dubai, UAE. Lori Grinker, whose photographs "Afterwar" are included in the exhibition, taught a five-day workshop to eight photographers. In Dubai, a place where only fifteen percent of the population is Emirate, the students in this workshop were different nationalities but all residents of the UAE. The workshop struck a balance between fieldwork and editing exercises, immersing the students in a learning experience that encouraged them to develop their own way of seeing and to build a body of work based on specific story ideas. The final result from the workshop, presented as a public projection at The Third Line Gallery, is a dynamic and realist interpretation of life in Dubai, a city of frantic and rapidly rising development.
To view the work made during this workshop and read about the photographers please visit the on-line gallery: www.al-liquindoi.com/gallerydubai2.html.
For more information on Al-liquindoi Photography Workshops visit www.al-liquindoi.com.
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