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Dubai Gallery

The Third Line Gallery, Dubai, UAE. August 2006. This workshop was developed as part of Moving Walls: A Documentary Photography Exhibition. An international exhibition curated and sponsored by the Open Society Institute, a private operating and grantmaking foundation based in New York City. Lori Grinker, whose photographs "Afterwar" are included in the exhibition, taught a five-day workshop to eight photographers. In Dubai, a place where only fifteen percent of the population is Emirate, the students in this workshop were different nationalities but all residents of the UAE. The workshop struck a balance between 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 Gallery, is a dynamic and realist interpretation of life in Dubai, a city of frantic and rapidly rising development.

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