The magpie team is once again putting together its annual list of the 50 most exciting, innovative and stimulating people in the UAE who are making a difference to the cultural and creative life of the Emirates. And we want [ … ]
The winners have been announced for the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award, the world’s richest. The theme for this eight season of HIPA was Hope. As HIPA Secretary General, Ali bin Thalith said: “This award [ … ]
The Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA) has announced the ‘special award’ recipients for its eighth season of competition. These go to “photographers that have contributed positively to photography as an art-form and industry” and [ … ]
Here it is: the 2019 edition of magpie’s 50 To Follow. Like most retrospective lists, it’s intended as a conversation piece. We fully expect you to disagree with our inclusions, and with the (admittedly pretty arbitrary) ranking that we’ve given [ … ]
A new publicly-accessible Photography Studio opens at Manarat Al Saadiyat on 3 October, with facilities for photographers, workshops and exhibitions. The services available include a studio available for rent, a digital lab, classrooms, and a large workspace including a makeup [ … ]
Meraas, the Dubai-based property company responsible for many of the sexier developments along the city’s coastal strip, has opened the fourth edition of its Urban Pixels photography competition. The competition runs from 19 April to 10 May, is open to [ … ]
The first two artists to win the chance to put a design on to the new LED façade of the world’s tallest habitable building have been named as Pedro Narvaez from Mexico and Hiroyuki Hosaka from Japan. Their winning designs [ … ]
Don Ferdinand Tabbun has been named the winner of the United Arab Emirates National Award in the 2018 Sony World Photography Awards. Tabbun, an architect from the Philippines now based in Abu Dhabi, won for a photograph titled Challenge taken during [ … ]
After a two-year hiatus, the Abu Dhabi Through Your Eyes photo competition is back. It’s been expanded to included film (two categories) as well as a total of six photo categories; and new for 2018 is an open-ended students’ section [ … ]
Throughout Sikka 2018 Tashkeel is hosting Out of the Dark, “an exhibition of photography that demonstrates the creative potential in all things analogue, from processing to alternative forms of printing and development”. Undergraduates and recent graduates who are UAE residents [ … ]
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