Detour to the Stars.
© Mariam Magsi, 2022
I got lost and took a detour even though the sign said “no road ahead.” A bumpy ride led to the middle of a farm. Dead silence. Crickets. Cows gently mooing themselves to sleep. Rural darkness as far as the eyes could see. And then, I looked up and gasped in wonder. To the stars I was nothing but a mere dot below, far across the distance. In isolation and silence, I felt completely interconnected with the universe.
I am building my gear gradually, and don’t have the appropriate lenses for astronomical observation. It is difficult to document the night sky, nevertheless I pushed my beloved wide angle 12-24 to the max despite the blur and pixelation. F/4.0, ISO 3200, Exposed for 30 seconds. I highly recommend using a tripod and a remote trigger to avoid even the slightest of vibrations when photographing night skies. This photograph took several attempts, but I didn’t give up until I attained the shot that did a semblance of justice to the magnificent sky.
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Northern Yemen, 2013. From Yumna Al-Arashi’s ongoing documentary work in the Middle East
Photograph: Yumna Al-Arashi
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Gertrude Käsebier :: Zitkala Sa, Sioux Indian and activist, ca. 1898 | src NMAH
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Tooth Gubber
A work by one of Australia’s leading artist collaborations, whose practice incorporates photography, installation and sculpture
Photograph: Honey Long and Prue Stent
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Yumna Al-Arashi, Axis of Evil (Yemen, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq), 2020
in Leica Fotografie International (LFI) magazine:
"This photograph was made for my first European solo show in Berlin, in the gallery Anahita Contemporary. It's a self-portrait alongside Anahita Sadighi, Moshtari Hilal and Susu AbdulMajid. We are respectively from Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq. Despite our different roots I noticed that we all share a similar background, having grown up in Western nations that often vilify the places our families are from.
I also noticed the strong profiles of each of our faces. So I decided to create this portrait with the title Axis of Evil – a play on the term so frequently used to describe our home countries when we were growing up. It also embraces the beauty of our distinctive noses, which are often treated as ugly, something to be changed. I wanted to embrace these qualities of ours in this image, creating something powerful, defiant."
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