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Eman Ali - Succession Oman Photo Ltd. 300 OOP - 2019
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Eman Ali - Succession Oman Photo Ltd. 300 OOP - 2019

For the moment, I am unable to ship to America due to the tariffs. I ship every couple of days and cannot hold packages. If you plan to buy, thank you, but please be aware that I have to ship on time and to the address provided on CW. In Succession, I explore Oman’s modern history through the lens of the archive - examining what it preserves, what it omits, and the silences it leaves behind. The images for this project come from a quarterly newsletter titled Oman, published by the Embassy of the Sultanate in the United Kingdom between 1973 and the 1980s - a collection carefully preserved by my father. This publication aimed to present Oman to the West as a modern, stable, and economically prosperous nation, carefully crafting a narrative of progress under the rule of Sultan Qaboos bin Said. It was both a tool of diplomacy and an artifact of a nation in the process of reshaping its identity. I focus on the early years of Sultan Qaboos’s rule, a period of great transformation and reinvention. These years raise questions about power, memory, and history - questions that compel me because they expose the slippery, constructed nature of the past. The photobook I created is not a straightforward documentation of this era. Instead, it is a sequence of iPhone images, carefully altered and reimagined into something more akin to a dream than a record. These images do not clarify or explain; they hover in ambiguity, evoking a sense of history that is layered, fluid, and alive. Through them, I explore what it means to frame a moment, a place, or a nation - and to call that frame truth. Oman’s long period of isolation before 1970 looms large in this work. For much of its history, the country was shrouded in mystery, its narratives often constructed by external observers. With Succession, I confront this legacy - not by attempting to fill the gaps left by the colonial gaze but by sitting with those gaps, interrogating their silences and contradictions. The archive is not a static repository of truth; it is a dynamic space of negotiation, shaped by power and perception. In an era of political uncertainty and instability, I find myself drawn to the concept of impermanence. National identity, to me, is not fixed; it is fragile, ever-shifting, and shaped by forces both visible and invisible. Succession is not an attempt to provide answers or definitive narratives. Instead, it is a space for contemplation - a way to engage with what lingers and what fades, and to confront the tension between the two. This book has been commissioned by Ffotogallery on the occasion of the exhibition 'The Place I Call Home', curated by David Drake, for the British Council. The exhibition has toured the UK and the GCC.

N.º 100387093

Vendido
Eman Ali - Succession Oman Photo Ltd. 300 OOP - 2019

Eman Ali - Succession Oman Photo Ltd. 300 OOP - 2019

For the moment, I am unable to ship to America due to the tariffs. I ship every couple of days and cannot hold packages. If you plan to buy, thank you, but please be aware that I have to ship on time and to the address provided on CW.

In Succession, I explore Oman’s modern history through the lens of the archive - examining what it preserves, what it omits, and the silences it leaves behind. The images for this project come from a quarterly newsletter titled Oman, published by the Embassy of the Sultanate in the United Kingdom between 1973 and the 1980s - a collection carefully preserved by my father. This publication aimed to present Oman to the West as a modern, stable, and economically prosperous nation, carefully crafting a narrative of progress under the rule of Sultan Qaboos bin Said. It was both a tool of diplomacy and an artifact of a nation in the process of reshaping its identity.

I focus on the early years of Sultan Qaboos’s rule, a period of great transformation and reinvention. These years raise questions about power, memory, and history - questions that compel me because they expose the slippery, constructed nature of the past. The photobook I created is not a straightforward documentation of this era. Instead, it is a sequence of iPhone images, carefully altered and reimagined into something more akin to a dream than a record. These images do not clarify or explain; they hover in ambiguity, evoking a sense of history that is layered, fluid, and alive. Through them, I explore what it means to frame a moment, a place, or a nation - and to call that frame truth.

Oman’s long period of isolation before 1970 looms large in this work. For much of its history, the country was shrouded in mystery, its narratives often constructed by external observers. With Succession, I confront this legacy - not by attempting to fill the gaps left by the colonial gaze but by sitting with those gaps, interrogating their silences and contradictions. The archive is not a static repository of truth; it is a dynamic space of negotiation, shaped by power and perception.

In an era of political uncertainty and instability, I find myself drawn to the concept of impermanence. National identity, to me, is not fixed; it is fragile, ever-shifting, and shaped by forces both visible and invisible. Succession is not an attempt to provide answers or definitive narratives. Instead, it is a space for contemplation - a way to engage with what lingers and what fades, and to confront the tension between the two.


This book has been commissioned by Ffotogallery on the occasion of the exhibition 'The Place I Call Home', curated by David Drake, for the British Council. The exhibition has toured the UK and the GCC.

Licitação final
€ 6
Sebastian Hau
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Estimativa  € 180 - € 220

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