Moving Walls Dubai Exhibition

The work of seven photographers exhibited in previous Moving Walls exhibitions in the United States were shown at The Third Line, alongside the work of local photographer Bendar Al-Bashir. The photographs in this exhibition cover diverse regions—including Ethiopia, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, and the United States—and subjects such as political transition, prison life, wounded veterans, American Islam, homelessness, and child prostitution. Moving Walls Dubai was organized by OSI's Documentary Photography Project and Middle East & North Africa Initiative, in partnership with The Third Line.

Read the curators' statement.

Photographers in the Exhibition

Gary Fabiano, Aleksandr Glyadyelov, Eric Gottesman, Edward Grazda, Lori Grinker, Andrew Lichtenstein, James Nubile, and Bendar Al-Bashir.

Workshops

Coinciding with the exhibition, Al-liquindoi organized a production workshop taught by Moving Walls photographer Lori Grinker from August 27–31. This five-day workshop was held at The Third Line for eight local photographers. In Dubai, a place where only nineteen percent of the population is Emirati, the students in this workshop represented a number of different nationalities, but were all residents of the United Arab Emirates. The workshop combined fieldwork and editing exercises, immersing the students in a learning experience that encouraged them to develop their own way of seeing and 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, is a dynamic and realist interpretation of life in Dubai, a city of frantic and rapidly rising development. View a list of workshop participants and their photographs.

Venue

The Third Line, Dubai, United Arab Emirates