honorable mention
Yousif Albadi
title
The House of God .
Funded by the Gargash family, the building is set alongside a busy road in the industrial Al Quoz area in the south of Dubai.The family wanted the building to have a contemporary feel and be a calm space for prayer away from the bustle of the city. The mosque's stone walls are covered with a recessed geometric pattern made of triangles, some of which perforate the stone to allow natural light into the building , with A verse from the Quran written in calligraphy was also recessed into a band that wraps around the walls of the prayer hall.
a Visual Storyteller that mainly in love with Street-Life Photography, but open to any medium or approach that can contain my visual observations and tell a story, as a Contemporary photographer, I always challenge myself to use new techniques and recent developments to present new perspectives on traditional subjects and compositions.
My Long term -format compositions capture the human’s relationship with nature, cities, light, and shadows. with simplicity, which opens the door to self-interpretation and emotional connection. My practice is heavily influenced by my career in the medical field as a doctor, where both my profession and my visual arts passion depend on sense and observation. Started by visual experiments in 2009 as a self-taught Photographer, participated in many exhibitions locally, regionally, and internationally, and been the recipient of numerous awards, academically am a participant of the Filmmaking & Cinematography Program 2017/18 at Sharjah Art Foundation.
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entry description
When light, patterns , and geometry comes to play in a space that celebrates tolerance and diversity. a picture showing a distinctive worship house, an Islamic mosque in Dubai - UAEFunded by the Gargash family, the building is set alongside a busy road in the industrial Al Quoz area in the south of Dubai.The family wanted the building to have a contemporary feel and be a calm space for prayer away from the bustle of the city. The mosque's stone walls are covered with a recessed geometric pattern made of triangles, some of which perforate the stone to allow natural light into the building , with A verse from the Quran written in calligraphy was also recessed into a band that wraps around the walls of the prayer hall.
about the photographer
Yousif Albadi , a Documentary Photographer based in Abu Dhabi ,a Visual Storyteller that mainly in love with Street-Life Photography, but open to any medium or approach that can contain my visual observations and tell a story, as a Contemporary photographer, I always challenge myself to use new techniques and recent developments to present new perspectives on traditional subjects and compositions.
My Long term -format compositions capture the human’s relationship with nature, cities, light, and shadows. with simplicity, which opens the door to self-interpretation and emotional connection. My practice is heavily influenced by my career in the medical field as a doctor, where both my profession and my visual arts passion depend on sense and observation. Started by visual experiments in 2009 as a self-taught Photographer, participated in many exhibitions locally, regionally, and internationally, and been the recipient of numerous awards, academically am a participant of the Filmmaking & Cinematography Program 2017/18 at Sharjah Art Foundation.
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