Al-liquindoi curates, develops, and produces content driven Projects aimed to engage audiences on critical issues, challenge ideas, and generate necessary conversations. These projects can take various forms and expand beyond photography, to other mediums. Projects also include all of the educational opportunities we develop outside of Spain, long-term initiatives, designed for specific people in particular geographic regions. To date, that includes work in Central Asia and the Caucasus, and the Middle East and North Africa.
Projects
Con un pie en cada lado – El viaje de Soly
Como parte del festival de fotografía Enfocats del Centro Civico Pati Llimona en Barcelona, Jessica Murray es invitada comisariar una exposición. Para ella colabora con la asociación Dunia Kato www.duniakato.org Cuenta la odisea de Malamine Soly que, saliendo desde Dakar, Senegal, inicia una travesía por tierra y mar que le dura casi dos años, para llegar a…
Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP)
ADPP is a program jointly funded by Arab Fund for Arts and Culture and Prince Claus Fund in collaboration with the Magnum Foundation, and will run from 2014 to 2016, targeting creative documentary photographers in the Middle East adn North Africa.
THE SHORTEST DISTANCE BETWEEN US – STORIES FROM THE ARAB DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY PROGRAM (EXHIBITION IN DUBAI, FEB 2019)
GPP Photo Week 2019 If the shortest distance between each of us is a story, in a world of parallel lives and intersecting realities, we can become better acquainted if we actively share stories. The familiarity that is born through shared narratives opens up the possibility of collectively tending to each other and to the…
Un regalo para Kushbu: Historias que cruzan fronteras – A Graphic Novel
Un regalo para Kushbu: Historias que cruzan fronteras is a graphic novel in Spanish that tells the stories of nine people who came to Barcelona in search of a better life. Fleeing situations of misery, war, and persecution in Afghanistan, Colombia, India, Niger, Nigeria, Nepal, Morocco, Uzbekistan and Senegal, each arrived in Europe only to be faced…
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EUROPA: An Illustrated Introduction to Europe for Migrants and Refugees
EUROPA: An Illustrated Introduction to Europe for Migrants and Refugees, is a collaborative and independent book, the first of its kind intended for practical use by migrants and refugees, and as an educational tool to inform, engage, and facilitate community exchange. A print version of the book was distributed, for free, to different focal points around…
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Crónica21 Archive: Building a Picture of the Present
Crónica21 is a collective, on-line, multidisciplinary archive documenting the economic, political and social crisis in Spain from 2008 until today.
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OSF grant program for photographers from Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Mongolia
From 2009 until 2014, the Open Society Foundations (OSF) offered a grant program for photographers from Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Mongolia. Up to ten grants a year were given to photographers documenting social justice or human rights issues in their home country or in the region. The program provided the grantees with a…
Visual Storytelling in an Open Society, Egypt
Al-liquindoi partners with Contemporary Image Collective and NOOR to produce this long-term training opportunity for documentary photographers and photojournalists in Egypt.
Contemporary Image Collective in Cairo
In 2009 Al-liquindoi coordinated two workshops for the Contemporary Image Collective in Cairo, Egypt, as part an initiative to offer international level training to local photojournalists and photo editors. The workshops were taught by Manoocher Deghati and Sheryl Mendez. Please visit this site for information about CIC and the opportunities they offer photographers in the region:…
Kolondima, Malli
As part of the public awareness campaign for the Spanish chapter of Acción Contra el Hambre, Al-liquindoi coordinated and taught a photography workshop with women in the village of Kolondima, Malli in 2008. The women, along with Gonzalo Höhr and Olivia Gay, photographed different initiatives started by ACH in the Sahel. The resulting work was exhibited in the…
Moving Walls International – Open Society Foundations
In 2006 the Documentary Photography Project of the Open Society Foundations (OSF) curated an exhibition from it’s annual Moving Walls, specifically designed to travel through the Middle East and North Africa, which it did until 2008. An important aim of this initiative was to help form documentary photographers in the region and at the same time lay the…
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Birzeit University – Palestine
February 2006. The Israeli occupation of Palestine and the construction of the Separation Wall will soon have the Palestinians completely locked into boundaries defined by the occupying power. Much like the Apartheid of South Africa, this system of occupation is having dire effects on the Palestinian economy, on it’s political aspirations and on the psyche of…