Akram Zaatari works with photography, video, letters and archives to examine memory, conflict, desire and photographic culture in the Arab world. As a co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation, he has been deeply involved in preserving and critically rethinking regional photographic archives.
Photography; video; installation; archive
Artist Films
Akram Zaatari describes Hashem el Madani’s “photography of the working class”
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Major Works
- 2003This Day
- 2013Letter to a Refusing Pilot
- 2010Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright
- 2015Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem
- 2012The End of Time
- 2010On Photography, People and Modern Times
- 1997 onwardThe Madani Project
- 2015Her + Him VAN LEO
- 2008Nature Morte
- 2011Dance to the End of Love
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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