[New post] Yamam Nabeel’s Fragments from Strange Lands at Fann a Porter Gallery, Dubai
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Yamam Nabeel, Searching - Abu Dhabi, December 2019
Evoking a unique sense of identity within the fluid city life, a collection of photographs shot from across streets of the world, are on display at the Fann a Porter gallery, at The Workshop, Dubai, till December 3rd 2022. London-based Iraqi photographer and writer, Yaman Nabeel's solo exhibition -- Fragments from Strange Lands -- uses photography as human memory to tell stories and archive what is often overlooked.
Shot on film and unedited, the photographs capture indelible slices of reality. Born in Baghdad in 1976, Yamam has experienced migration first-hand, having lived in seven countries before he turned 18. From Baghdad, his family went into exile in 1980 and spent 18 months living in France, East Germany, Syria, Lebanon and Czechoslovakia before settling down in Hungary in 1981 and later moving to the UK in 1992.
Find Meaning - Alexandria, Egypt. January 2020
Yamam began writing short stories in Hungarian at the age of 16 and went to work in MBC (Middle East Broadcasting Centre) and later with CNN, Channel 4, Sky Sports and Sky News. In 2003, he set up FC Unity an award-winning non-governmental organization that combats violence, extremism and racism through sports and education. Since 2017, he has been focusing on photography and writing, to tell stories of the unsung heroes of the world.
Lockdown - Berlin, Germany. October 2020
"Like shards of broken mirrors collected over time and from faraway places these images from lands I am a stranger in, reflect my fragmented self," says Yamam.
"At four, it was my first-time leaving Bagdad, the home that I no longer recognise, but the eternal home keeping my story safely until I return. Then to Paris, the first city that welcomed me; to Budapest, the city that keeps my memories and finally to London the metropolis, the city that welcomes everyone and keep them apart, the place I know the most but the place that knows me the least.
Like a daydream that seems real enough to believe, I have gathered these pieces of strangers in order to make sense of the world. Standing close, but not so close as to be part of them, I walked in the cities, I breathed them in, deep into my soul, so that I might be able to understand them without wanting to belong.
I keep travelling, feeding my hunger to be on the periphery. At the same time, I have yearned to mend these shards into whole story that somebody might recognise.
These photos each tell a story without words, evoking emotion without having to shout, imagining a world I can finally home," Yamam Nabeel.
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