Please join the SMFA Graphic Arts at the SMFA Library (B303) for two special events this October. We are excited to host book launches and talks with renowned book-makers and artists, moderated by artist and educator Qais Assali.
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Photography from Yemen presents 14 contemporary photography artists from Yemen, the first ever survey of contemporary Yemeni photography. Featuring artists working both inside Yemen and in diaspora, this book not only includes a presentation of each artist’s work, but also allows them to speak about their practice in their own words.
Featured artists: Abeer Aref, Afraa Ahmed, Ahmed Alabbadi, Amr Attamimi, Arif Alnomay, Asim Abdulaziz, Boushra Almutawakel, Hanan Ishaq, Ibi Ibrahim, Saber Wasel, Shaima Al-Tamimi, Somaya Samawi, Thana Faroq, and Yumna Al-Arashi.
Edited by Ibi Ibrahim and Lizzy Vartanian, with a foreword by Lina Ramadan.
Ibi Ibrahim is a Yemeni-American visual artist, filmmaker and musician. He studied photography at the International Center of Photography in New York. Ibrahim’s work explores various thematics surrounding immigration, gender and resilience. All marked by notions of in-betweenness, transition and the diasporic human experience. The photowork Ibrahim produced over the past decade aims to offer an idiosyncratic exploration of Arab identities through an artistic approach specifically highlighting queer Arab-American perspectives and intertwining storytelling with care practices, artistic research and advocacy. His work is part of a number of private collections as well as public collections including the British Museum, Colorado College, Arab American National Museum, Barjeel Art Foundation and Durham University Oriental Museum, among others.
Qais Assali, moderator.