See You at Photofairs NY!
Salih Basheer
Magnum Foundation is thrilled to participate as a Program Partner at this year’s inaugural PHOTOFAIRS New York, where we will present work by two photographers trained in our fellowship programs whose projects reframe and confront dominant narratives. In The Longing Of The Stranger Whose Path Has Been Broken, Rehab Eldalil reconnects with her Bedouin ancestry and works collaboratively with the Bedouin community of St. Catherine, South Sinai, Egypt to explore the notion of belonging and the interconnectedness of people and land. In Blue: Children of January, Salih Basheer explores Sudan’s history of military coups and revolutions and their effects on the country's future. On view September 8-10 at the Javits Center.
LOCATION
Javits Center
Booth #328
429 11th Avenue, New York, NY 10001
OPENING TIMES
September 8, Friday, 11am to 7pm
September 9, Saturday, 11am to 7pm
September 10, Sunday, 11am to 6pm
About the Projects
Rehab Eldalil
The Longing Of The Stranger Whose Path Has Been Broken is a personal project in which I reconnect with my Bedouin ancestry and work collaboratively with the Bedouin community of St. Catherine, South Sinai, Egypt to explore the notion of belonging and the interconnectedness of people and land.
I believe it’s a common human emotion to seek a definition of one’s identity, yet its complexity is often ignored, creating flattened labels and othering. With this dialogue, I’m building a bridge between the voices of the Bedouin community and western audiences who have long seen the Bedouins and many other indigenous communities through a romanticized gaze.
This project was produced in the Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP), which provides support and mentorship to photographers from across the Middle East and North Africa to amplify creative approaches to visual storytelling that challenge conventional narratives about the region. ADPP is a joint initiative of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, the Magnum Foundation, and the Prince Claus Fund.
Salih Basheer
My birthday is on January 1, 1995. It is the date listed on my birth certificate, but I do not know my real date of birth. Like many of my generation in Sudan, I was granted an estimated birthdate of January 1st by the state due to a lack of infrastructure to build a modern digital archive system.
Combining government identification photos, current and archival TV news coverage, photographs of recent protests, and photographs of daily life in Khartoum tinted red by heat-damaged film, my project Blue: Children of January explores Sudan’s history of military coups and revolutions and their effects on the country's future.
This project was produced in Magnum Foundation’s 2022 Counter Histories Fellowship, an intergenerational and transnational cohort of twenty photographers whose work intervenes in archives, official histories, and the visual landscape of memory and memorialization. Salih was also previously a participant in the Arab Documentary Photography Program.
Among their many accolades, Eldalil received the World Press Photo Regional Award 2022 (Open Format/Africa), and Basheer the 2023 Les Rencontres d’Arles Photo-Text Book Award.