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Stranger (signed - last copy)

by Olivia Arthur


Photographs: Olivia Arthur

Text: Olivia Arthur

Publisher: fishbar

Year: 2015

ISBN: 978-0-9569959-7-1

Comments: 26 x 19,5 cm, clothbound hardcover, black and white and color illustrations on transparent paper, english, quotes taken from conversations held in Dubai, edition of 1000, design by Melanie Mues

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On 8th April 1961 the MV Dara, a ship carrying passengers between India, Pakistan and the Gulf, sank just off the port of Dubai. An estimated 238 people lost their lives. 

Some bodies were never found and relatives of the missing continue to this day to search for their loved ones.

Stranger, a new project by photographer Olivia Arthur, imagines a survivor returning to Dubai fifty years later, and what they would see. Through photographs and small anecdotes, the viewer is taken on a journey through a city that is both awe-inspiring and alienating. A city which has grown at breath-taking pace from a population of 90,0000 in the 1960s to over 2 million in the current day, and continues to draw people from all over the world with its promise of riches. 

The backbone of the project is the story of the shipwreck, transporting the viewer back and forth in history and acting as a reminder of the fragility and skin-deep nature of Dubai.

Reflecting this fragility and suggesting the feelings of loneliness and disorientation often experienced by residents of Dubai, the book is printed on transparent paper. The result is that the layered images fade in and out of view, interspersed with quotes, memories, and images of the shipwreck itself.

> selected among the Best Photobooks 2015 by Colin Pantall

Mentioned by Lederman / Yatskevich / Lang in HOW WE SEE PHOTOBOOKS BY WOMEN


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Stranger (signed - last copy)

by Olivia Arthur


Photographs: Olivia Arthur

Text: Olivia Arthur

Publisher: fishbar

Year: 2015

ISBN: 978-0-9569959-7-1

Comments: 26 x 19,5 cm, clothbound hardcover, black and white and color illustrations on transparent paper, english, quotes taken from conversations held in Dubai, edition of 1000, design by Melanie Mues

sold out

On 8th April 1961 the MV Dara, a ship carrying passengers between India, Pakistan and the Gulf, sank just off the port of Dubai. An estimated 238 people lost their lives. 

Some bodies were never found and relatives of the missing continue to this day to search for their loved ones.

Stranger, a new project by photographer Olivia Arthur, imagines a survivor returning to Dubai fifty years later, and what they would see. Through photographs and small anecdotes, the viewer is taken on a journey through a city that is both awe-inspiring and alienating. A city which has grown at breath-taking pace from a population of 90,0000 in the 1960s to over 2 million in the current day, and continues to draw people from all over the world with its promise of riches. 

The backbone of the project is the story of the shipwreck, transporting the viewer back and forth in history and acting as a reminder of the fragility and skin-deep nature of Dubai.

Reflecting this fragility and suggesting the feelings of loneliness and disorientation often experienced by residents of Dubai, the book is printed on transparent paper. The result is that the layered images fade in and out of view, interspersed with quotes, memories, and images of the shipwreck itself.

> selected among the Best Photobooks 2015 by Colin Pantall

Mentioned by Lederman / Yatskevich / Lang in HOW WE SEE PHOTOBOOKS BY WOMEN


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more books tagged »Dubai« | >> see all

more books tagged »magnum photographer« | >> see all

more books tagged »British« | >> see all

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Stranger (signed - last copy)

by Olivia Arthur


Photographs: Olivia Arthur

Text: Olivia Arthur

Publisher: fishbar

Year: 2015

ISBN: 978-0-9569959-7-1

Comments: 26 x 19,5 cm, clothbound hardcover, black and white and color illustrations on transparent paper, english, quotes taken from conversations held in Dubai, edition of 1000, design by Melanie Mues

sold out

On 8th April 1961 the MV Dara, a ship carrying passengers between India, Pakistan and the Gulf, sank just off the port of Dubai. An estimated 238 people lost their lives. 

Some bodies were never found and relatives of the missing continue to this day to search for their loved ones.

Stranger, a new project by photographer Olivia Arthur, imagines a survivor returning to Dubai fifty years later, and what they would see. Through photographs and small anecdotes, the viewer is taken on a journey through a city that is both awe-inspiring and alienating. A city which has grown at breath-taking pace from a population of 90,0000 in the 1960s to over 2 million in the current day, and continues to draw people from all over the world with its promise of riches. 

The backbone of the project is the story of the shipwreck, transporting the viewer back and forth in history and acting as a reminder of the fragility and skin-deep nature of Dubai.

Reflecting this fragility and suggesting the feelings of loneliness and disorientation often experienced by residents of Dubai, the book is printed on transparent paper. The result is that the layered images fade in and out of view, interspersed with quotes, memories, and images of the shipwreck itself.

> selected among the Best Photobooks 2015 by Colin Pantall

Mentioned by Lederman / Yatskevich / Lang in HOW WE SEE PHOTOBOOKS BY WOMEN


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more books tagged »Dubai« | >> see all

more books tagged »magnum photographer« | >> see all

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