The Photo World/ Dubai 2008 was a good experience for the students of Mascom who are interested in Photography or TV and Video production field, for me had the feeling of : what am I doing here? It was pointless for me to go to such an exhibition, but yes in the last hour when I was really hopeless and disparate to find any good story to cover about this exhibition, suddenly I found something concerns areas of interest of mine.
I realized when looking at the photographs done by professionals and by beginners as well that they all shared something in common; all are showing the huge reform and Renaissances of all the GCC countries especially in Dubai accompanied with showing cultural symbols like the falcon, the classical form of ships, the Masjids, and so on and as shown in the photos.
Such connecting between the developments in different sectors and the inheritance of the Gulf countries lead us to feel that these photographs or the photographers want to show us the insisting of the GCC to relate between the past and the present or to be more accurate between the present and the past; in other words they want to say that yes we are an opened window to the west and to other cultures and to the whole world in it's technical developments, globalization, and modernization but still we hold our inheritance to shape our developments according to it and under the it's influence, and this is what we call the right way of dealing with the globalization and ideas like the world become a small village as McLuhan said.
I don’t want and don’t have enough space to discuss the symbolism academically, but this is only a whisper in intelligent people to notice such form of symbolism in the art movement in the Gulf region to be able to read more efficiently the developments in this particular region.
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