Stories
Join our photo-based competition, part of the online programming around the exhibition “The Place I Call Home” (TPICH) running from 7 March – 31 May 2020 at Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, in which you can tell us through your own photographs what the place you call home looks like.
Our partners at Maraya Art Centre have produced this film in which you can find out more about the project as a whole, as well as meet some of the artists and listen to them talk about their work and their ideas of home.
Following local guidelines regarding the current coronavirus crisis, the exhibition at Maraya Arts Centre is now closed to the public. In order to make the show accessible online, our partners in Sharjah have produced an online 360° virtual walkthrough so now you can visit from the comfort of your own home.
To mark the end of the project, Ffotogallery has produced a legacy catalogue for The Place I Call Home, bringing together in a single volume content from the seven individual publications which have been distributed free to exhibition visitors, partners, participating artists and young people.
In terms of physical exhibitions, The Place I Call Home project is now over. The evaluation and dissemination of the project content and stories will continue, despite the current global crisis.
Highlights from the exhibition launch event at Summerhall in Edinburgh, on Thursday 20 February.
Film by Adam Harper.
Film by Noor Hassan.
Film by Rawan Al-Saati.
Film by Noor Hassan.
Film by Noor Hassan.
Preparations are in full swing for our exhibition opening tomorrow, 15th January, from 7pm at the Art Centre, Bahrain National Museum. Thanks to our creative intern Noor Hassan for putting together this video footage.
Glasgow based artist Ben Soedira was born and raised in Dubai, and his work is a reflection of the ever-changing city and its relationship to the shifting sands of the desert that surrounds it.
Scottish born photographer Gillian Robertson talks about what working on the project has enabled her to accomplish, meeting new people and building new relationships within the multicultural community of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE.
Born in Madina, Saudi Arabia, Moath Alofi is a photographer, explorer and heritage researcher.
UK-based photographer Josh Adam Jones photographs FMR Captain Abdulrauf, who talks about his experiences and what makes Oman his home.
Kuwaiti artist Mohammed Al Kouh talks briefly about his practice working with film and what 'home' means to him.
On the morning of October 3, 2019, the photography students of the American University of Kuwait visited The American Cultural Centre at Dar al Athar al Islamiyyah to attend a private tour and workshop of the photography exhibition, The Place I Call Home.
Take a look inside the second instalment of The Place I Call Home exhibition, at the opening event in Kuwait. Film by Hamad AlSaeed.
To coincide with The Place I Call Home, we have launched a brand new platform called everydaygulf.org.
Feeling ‘at home’ in a place embodies many things - a sense of belonging, familiarity, acceptance, independence, security and prospects.
