Contemporary photographer from Saudi Arabia whose work featured in the "Light from the Middle East" at the Victoria & Albert Museum (2013) In her series "I Am" she includes photographs of Saudi women with non-traditional careers, each photograph has the woman with a physical object indicative of her role, for example the TV producer with a Sony TV camera and the computer scientist with a keyboard, at the same time they are robed and wearing pieces of traditional jewelry that on their cultural restrictions and society-imposed limitations.
Manal al-Dowayan
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