{"id":3398,"date":"2011-12-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/?p=3398"},"modified":"2011-12-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T00:00:00","slug":"arab-photography-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/arab-photography-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab Photography Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The visibility of contemporary Arab and Iranian art in museums, biennales and auctions houses is the result of a handful of curators. In London, Rose Issa was the first one to organise contemporary Middle Eastern art exhibitions. It was a radically new approach to a region that had always been framed by stalemate political analysis of war, terror, occupation and corruption, mainly by Western pundits and academics. By focusing on visual culture and the experience of people living there, Middle Easterners spoke for themselves. It wasn\u2019t the first time, but it was the first time that a movement of home-grown art scenes were acknowledged and encouraged, internationally as well as locally.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"JOWHARAALSAUD\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/JOWHARAALSAUD.jpg?resize=470%2C369&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"369\" width=\"470\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/><span class=\"photo_copyright\">Jowhara Al Saud<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The artist monographs and anthologies Issa produces fulfil a similar function in providing a much needed space for artists\u2019 works and words at a time when visually-led books are too expensive for recession-hit publishers to produce. In this so-called season of Arab Spring, political engagement emerges as a main theme among the 31 artists featured in <em>Arab Photography Now<\/em>, a companion to Issa\u2019s 2008 book,<em> Iranian Photography Now<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"redriding\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/redriding.jpg?resize=350%2C454&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"454\" width=\"350\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/><span class=\"photo_copyright\">Raeda Saadeh<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the forefront are the Palestinians. The self-portraits of Raeda Saadeh, known as the &#8220;Cindy Sherman of Jerusalem\u201d, show the artist in different guises: Little Red Riding Hood, an uber-mother figure knitting among the ruins of a demolished Palestinian house or Mona Lisa with an Israeli settlement in the backdrop. The sometimes out of focus and badly lit photographs of Israeli watchtowers bring home the difficulties for artists in Palestine. Taysir Batniji who cites Bernd and Hilla Becher as an inspiration (Donovan Wiley\u2019s British Army watchtowers in Northern Ireland should also be referenced) was born in Gaza. Banned by the Israeli authorities from travelling in the West Bank, Batniji commissioned another Palestinian photographer to take the images reproduced in the book. According to the artist, \u201cAestheticisation becomes a vivid political challenge\u2026 in the creation of these photographs\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" alt=\"IMG1074-OK\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG1074-OK.jpg?resize=470%2C294&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"294\" width=\"470\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/><span class=\"photo_copyright\">Taysir Batniji<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some artists resist politics and concentrate on glamour (Youssef Nabil) or kitsch (Hassan Hajjaj). However art, like great literature, is a window onto our times, and soldiers and their victims occupy the heart of <em>Arab Photography Now<\/em>. A moving counterpoint to both Nermine Hammam\u2019s Tahrir Square soldiers who have been transported to bright pastoral scenes and Jehad Nga\u2019s moody embedded photographs of the men and women of the 5-7 Cavalry Troop B, is Farah Nosh\u2019s black and white portraits of ordinary Iraqis maimed during the war. Nosh wrote that she started her project after seeing the media coverage of wounded veterans in the US. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Hassan_HajjajMarquesTOliver\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hassan_HajjajMarquesTOliver.jpg?resize=350%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"525\" width=\"350\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/><span class=\"photo_copyright\">Hassan Hajjaj<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes photography is powerful for what it doesn\u2019t show, as in Gilbert Hage\u2019s swimmers in the Mediterranean, escapees of Lebanon\u2019s brutal civil war, or the traced photographs of Jowhara Al Saud whose blanked out and blemish-free pictures of men and women mixing freely at parties in Saudi Arabia bypass the country\u2019s draconian censorship laws.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"JEHAD-NGA02\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/JEHAD-NGA02.jpg?resize=470%2C313&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"313\" width=\"470\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/><span class=\"photo_copyright\">Jehad Nga<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is a significant moment in the Middle East when even a photographer like Lara Baladi known for her fantasia in the desert \u2013 her hookah-smoking, fez-wearing caterpillar graces the book\u2019s cover \u2013 captures the defining panorama of Egypt\u2019s 25 January revolution. During a month when Tahrir Square filled once again with protestors, art in the Middle East remains in a contested space where real life is stranger and more powerful than fiction.<br \/>Malu Halasa<\/p>\n<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: left;\" class=\"review_photo\" alt=\"apn_cover\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/apn_cover.jpg?resize=150%2C189&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"189\" width=\"150\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artbooksheidelberg.com\/html\/en\/program\/detail.html?ID=513\">Arab Photography Now<\/a><\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artbooksheidelberg.com\/html\/en\/program\/detail.html?ID=513\"> is published by Kehrer Verlag<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>Malu Halasa reviews <em>Arab Photography Now<\/em>, a compendium of 31 Arab artists.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[22],"tags":[2167,2178,46,2176,2173,2174,2169,2168,2177,2175,49,2170,2125,2171,2172],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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