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Ait Taleb Ouali village (Maroc/Morocco). Marie-Claire Neveu shot these pictures last year while working on "Le CinéMouvant", an intercultural project in Ait Taleb Ouali, and a DocuPerformance about this village. Marie-Claire Neveu a pris ces photos l’année dernière, dans le cadre du projet "Le CinéMouvant", un projet interculturel à Ait Taleb Ouali, ainsi que sur la création d'un DocuSpectacle à propos de ce village. Copyright Marie-Claire Neveu: www.mcn-mcn.com
At the crossroads, pictures by Alyette Tritsch “When I think of Amman I see a huge anthill in which each ant, even the smallest ones in the immensity of the city, has a necessary role for the whole equilibrium. I imagine a node of roads that flow in every direction to provide the furthest corners of the city in what they need for their survival. I see the crossed destinies of individual lives, a sphere in which everybody is mixing without knowing each others, a world in which gazes struggle to break through anonymity. I guess the movement of things sometimes hastily and in confusion and sometimes in calm and slowness, some are losing their patience, some others do not count hours anymore. I glimpse the biggest roads like the tiniest paths, the asphalted avenues like the muddy ways, and the trucks chaos like the soft rumbling of the gassailor. In the evening mildness, taxi drivers turn the radio off when the call for prayer is heard.”
FOR AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS: Till June 30th you can submit your picture to the Mediterranean Women's Fund photo competition. This year's contest is "dedicated to those who make waves ... and who gently but surely move the boat of the world forward" . http://www.medwomensfund.org/en/Photo_Competition_2015.html
day 21; NEW BEGINNING, a visual perception of my new home, in #JVT (Jumeirah Village Triangle) a project by #Nakheel. In love with the structure of the compound and its quietness. Looking forward to creating more visuals of different areas of this project. #dubai #mydubai
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Escape, 2015
We published recently on Mashallah News a photo essay from Written In Sand, documenting the facades of the UAE: "we look at the architectural styles of buildings built during the formative years of the nation and how they influenced the visual fabric of smaller, more intimate urban dwellings — in contrast to the present day metropolis that most outsiders associate with the country."
Finding Armenia
“In 2010, I visited Armenia for the first time. It was a strange experience for me because although I am of Armenian descent, none of my family members are from Armenia, very few have even visited. I had just graduated high school and at first I wasn't particularly excited to go. I felt nervous about being away from my family and I wasn't confident in my Armenian, but my father finally convinced me to go, assuring me that it would be a great experience. After one month it was time to come back home to Canada. I left yearning to stay longer, to meet more of the people, to hear more of the language, to eat more of the food and vowing to come back one day.”
Armenian-Canadian photographer Cassandra Tavukciyan
See our past feature of her illuminated old photographs here.
Ma Ville – My City
Moroccan photography initiative Ma Ville invited people in Tanger, Casablanca and Marrakesh to photograph things that made them love their cities. The competiton is now over and there’s an extensive gallery of submitted photos on their website. Here’s the Mashallah-loves selection:
Tanger – Aurèle Andrews Benmejdoub
Tanger – Aurèle Andrews Benmejdoub
Marrakesh – Marian Filali
Marrakesh – Soufiane Stitou
Casablanca – Abderrahmane Doukkane
Casablanca – Zoora Alami
Tanger – Mouad Aboulhana
With love from us to you. Moroccan sha3bi! Said Senhaji – Bouya Rahal
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This is Yemen
In these hard times, another perspective from Yemen. Rana Jarbou, one of Mashallah’s contributors, took these pictures on the island of Socotra in 2012. Another post, with photos from Oliver Holmes, was shared on our Facebook page.
Leila's Death | موت ليلى
Painting by Iranian surrealist artist Mehdi Ghadyanloo.
"Mashallah" seen on the side of a food truck in Midtown, Manhattan. Entry in our campaign to share your images of "Mashallah" wherever you find them. Share on our wall (https://www.facebook.com/MashallahNews), tag us, or tweet at us (@mashallahnews) -- and let us know where you found it.
Finding the Drama of Light and Shadow in Tehran with @f64s125
For more of Ako’s street images from Tehran, follow @f64s125 on Instagram.
In the nooks and crannies of Tehran’s streets, photojournalist Ako Salemi (@f64s125) finds the moments when light, shadow, environment and people all come together in exquisite balance. “Sometimes I shoot just from the hip,” says Ako, “and sometimes I wait for ‘the decisive moment’ when the action, the light and all other elements make the right composition.”
Ako’s passion for black and white images began at an early age when he discovered a love for the classic films of Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, and Ingmar Bergman. He even graduated with a degree in drama hoping to be a filmmaker. But it was his shy demeanor and introverted character that led him to realize that he is better suited to what he calls “an art that can be made in solitude.”
Ako began expressing his visual ideas through photography and for the past two years has turned to Instagram to share his vision of street life in Tehran. “It’s as if I am having a non-judgmental dialogue with each of these Instagram friends that could not be expressed in words. I’m showing a piece of my city’s life and a piece of me.”
"Of Course Mona, Harara, Blue Bra Lady, Emad" Screenprints by Ganzeer ganzeerism:
Four screenprints I designed in Cairo sometime in 2013, screenprinted by Kevin Caplicki in Brooklyn at Bushwick Print Lab.
Top image - from left to right:
Title: Of Course, Mona Edition: 30 Dimensions: 19x25 Inches Media: screenprint on paper Description: “Of course the army has protected the revolution” is juxtaposed against an image of Mona Eltahawy, an Egyptian-American journalist, who was sexually assaulted and had both her arms broken by Egyptian Riot police during a protest against military rule in November 2011.
Title: Of Course, Harara Edition: 30 Dimensions: 19x25 Inches Media: screenprint on paper Description: “Of course the army has protected the revolution,” a sentence much propagated by the Egyptian regime since the fall of Mubarak is juxtaposed against a portrait of Ahmed Harara, an Egyptian protestor who lost an eye to a bullet on January 28th, 2011, and the other eye during anti-military protests-become-clashes near the Ministry of Interiors on November 19, 2011, a day known as the Battle of the Eyes of Freedom where many protestors lost their eyes to a police sniper.
Title: Of Course, Blue Bra Lady Edition: 30 (depicted above is a version hand-colored with blue and pink highlights) Dimensions: 19x25 Inches Media: screenprint on paper Description: The text reads “Of course the army has protected the revolution.” This sentence, regularly propagated by the Egyptian regime since the spark of the Egyptian revolution is juxtaposed against the backdrop of one protestor who’s gotten a taste of that protection first hand. Known as “The Blue Bra Girl,” this woman was unclothed, and severely kicked and beaten by several Military Police officers during a protest on December 17th, 2011 calling on the illegitimacy of Egyptian Parliament.
Title: Of Course, Emad Edition: 30 Dimensions: 19x25 Inches Media: screenprint on paper Description: Sheikh Emad Effat, an Al-Azhar University Senior, was shot dead during a massive anti-parliament/anti-military protest on December 17, 2011. This, by the way, at a time when the Muslim Brotherhood was supportive of the military and had managed to dominate parliament. Sheikh Emad’s portrait is juxtaposed against a sentence commonly propagated by the regime in Egypt: “Of course the army protected the revolution.”
A dose of optimism from Syrian artist Fares Cachoux : Top: "Damascus will become colorful again." Bottom: "Homs will become colorful again."
