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Community 366 |
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March 16, 2009 |
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March 19, 2009 |
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Description:
An open air photography exhibition, at the public beach in Um Suqeim 3, which is also known as Community 366. Next to the Burj Al Arab, the show features the older residential area behind the beach, with works by Richard Allenby-Pratt. This original part of Community 366 was built as housing in the early 80s for Emirati fishing families living by the sea. Richard looks at the community today, surrounded on all sides by new developments, tourism and expatriates. His pictures show how this particular urban environment has matured with time; how humanity has imprinted itself through adaptation, adornment and self-expression; and how neglect has added a further textural layer. The pictures are presented as large-scale prints on wooden screens. Set up in an area of disused land, adjacent to the beach, between a sand volleyball court and a dilapidated dhow. Anyone visiting the beach is free to take a minute to wander around the pictures and be encouraged to take a walk around the neighborhood and appreciate it's unique atmosphere; and its significance in the greater Dubai landscape. Richard Allenby-Pratt has been based in Dubai since 2000. He exhibited in "Dubai Photographers" a group show by mepp (Middle East Professional Photographers) at Total Arts Gallery in January 2008 and participated in the Bidoun's book "With/Without. Spatial Products, Practices and Politics in the Middle East" (2007). "Community 366" is the first exhibition of his personal work.
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