Gulf Photo Plus (GPP) has collaborated with Everyday Middle East (@everydaymiddleeast)
to exhibit a collection of images by their contributors; photographers who are redefining
photographic representation of the region
Everyday Middle East is an Instagram feed featuring mobile phone images by 25
professional photographers working in the Middle East and North Africa. Founded in March
2014, Everyday Middle East has collected more than 46,000 followers on Instagram with
520 mobile phone photos posted in the last 8 months. Everyday Middle East is part of a
network of Everyday Projects, which also include Everyday Africa, Everyday Asia and
Everyday USA. The projects cross-publish with each other and are currently collaborating to
create a non-profit organisation.
“By sharing everyday images from our daily lives, we hope to present a more realistic vision
of the region and to work against the stereotypes and visual tropes that so often characterize
the region in the mainstream media” - Lindsay Mackenzie, Everyday Middle East founder.
GPP will be exhibiting 90 images from the Everyday Middle East series. Free to attend and
open to the public, the exhibition will run from January 12 to February 26, 2014 in the GPP
gallery space in Alserkal Avenue. As part of the exhibition, GPP will also organise a talk and
photowalk; more details to be released soon.
Contributors
All 25 contributors are professional photographers who live or work frequently in the Middle East and are a mixture of expats, dual citizens and locals. They are working photographers with name recognition and include members of Getty Images, Panos Pictures and Rawiya Collective. They have won multiple World Press Photo awards, among others, and are regular contributors to the world's leading news publications, including The New York Times, New Yorker, National Geographic and more.
All 25 contributors are professional photographers who live or work frequently in the Middle East and are a mixture of expats, dual citizens and locals. They are working photographers with name recognition and include members of Getty Images, Panos Pictures and Rawiya Collective. They have won multiple World Press Photo awards, among others, and are regular contributors to the world's leading news publications, including The New York Times, New Yorker, National Geographic and more.
Group Photography Exhibition
Opening night January 12, 7pm
Exhibition runs from Jan 12 – Feb 26, 2015 Located in Gulf Photo Plus
Alserkal Avenue, D36, Al Quoz, Dubai
Opening night January 12, 7pm
Exhibition runs from Jan 12 – Feb 26, 2015 Located in Gulf Photo Plus
Alserkal Avenue, D36, Al Quoz, Dubai
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