2019 Daylight USA
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WOMEN OF KUWAITFinalist in the 2019 Lucie Photo Book Award in the Independent Prize category; acquired by the Getty Research Institute and the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and featured in Rolling Stone, Hyperallergic, Musee, Columbia University's School of Arts, and more.
Genre: Collaboration: Photography & Vignettes
In Women of Kuwait, Maha Alasaker (Kuwaiti visual artist) and Nada Faris (Kuwaiti writer and performance poet) joined forces to represent modern day Kuwaiti women to a Western audience. When Maha moved to New York, she learned that the everyday American has no conception of what daily life is like for women in modern-day Kuwait. Seeking to address this, she began making portraits of women in their bedrooms in 2015 and asking them about their lives. In 2018, she contacted Nada Faris, who interviewed the 25 women and wrote ekphrastic vignettes to accompany the photographs. This intimate collection of portraits and vignettes provides a never-before-seen look at what it means to be a young woman in Kuwait. Website: womenofkuwait.com Hardcover
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2018 Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press Qatar
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2016 Vine Leaves Press Australia
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