You Are Masters Of The Fish And Birds And All The Animals
Images from American photographer Shane Rocheleau’s eponymous book form a portrait of the psyche of white heteronormative masculinity and its visceral manifestations in the United States – accompanied with an artist Q&A
Soliloquies
Swiveling between memories in Sharjah, Dubai and Cairo, Noor Tannir’s vulnerable personal essay grapples with themes of anxiety, grief, and family illness
Itthon (At Home)
In a series of personal vignettes, Rose Gove traces their evolving relationship with the country of Hungary
Untitled
Matheus Crespo’s drawn triptych conjures little cities in the nooks of things grown
Stories I Want to Tell
Time for Tea: Reminiscing Routines
New in our invisible cities column, Farah Fawzi Ali uses the medium of tea-infused memories in different cities to weave a tender personal essay
A 2B is always better.
Oliver Herbert’s stark poetry looks at the divisions and realities of Dubai life through the medium of sketching. With art by Mashael Alsaie
Down and Out in the UAE Badlands
Film camera in tow, Benjamin Kirby heads to Al Dhaid in Dubai, where he meets an enigmatic TikTok-famous travel agent and muses on the urban landscape in this new essay
Two Postcards
Two poems by Teresa Cherukara offer tiny, epistolary stories of love and travel in the UAE
Binocular Rivalry
A series of haunting landscape photographs taken in West Bengal, India, as part of Arindam Manna’s graduate thesis
Thinking about Thinking
Dubai-based barista Dennis Reynoso uses his camera to create connections between contemplative passersby and himself
Three Poems on Palestine
Abeer Alaloul’s collection of micro poems explores how Palestinians in the diaspora visualize their homeland
Al Satwa
Venezuelan photographer Andrea Salerno Jácome shares a photo essay on the Satwa neighborhood in her current base Dubai, accompanied with both Spanish and English versions of a reflection on being a migrant in this ‘temporary city’
Process: A Mentee’s Experience in Warehouse421 x Gulf Photo Plus Artistic Development Program
Artist Fatema Al Fardan reflects on her experience as a participant in an Abu Dhabi-based artistic development program, providing an in depth account of her building a photography exhibit in the midst of a pandemic
A Gulf Between Me and My Father | અખાત – મારા અને મારા પપ્પા વચ્ચે નો.
In this personal memoir piece, UAE-born writer Bhoomika Ghagada weaves together hers and her father's personal histories in the city of Dubai, into a thread that links up the gulf between parent and child (both English and Gujarati versions available)
Epiphanies Galore Typing and Photocopying
Zoe Jane Patterson snakes through a tunnel with us into the magical realist realms of Abu Dhabi
TIME
Self-taught Saudi artist Faisal Abdulaziz AlKheriji adapts and paints real TIME magazine covers to project his own commentary
La Goutte d'Or
João Bolan captures the "little Africa of Paris", named La Goutte d'Or, in the city's 18th arrondissment; the immigrant-heavy area has long been experiencing gentrification, high crime rates, and various other social issues, often depicted as an "undesirable" place in Paris
Massage Cards
Two UAE-based artists, one female and one male, approach a quirk or glitch of the city of Abu Dhabi – the prevalence of “massage cards”
Stephanie Comilang’s Float: Into the Liminality of Overseas Filipino Workers
In conversation with Filipina artist Stephanie Comilang, Louise Gerodias discusses Comilang's solo exhibition Float, on show at Abu Dhabi's Warehouse421, and the realities of Filipino migrant workers abroad