Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/09/12

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Subject: [Leica] Dubai
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 15:30:24 +0530
References: <CAEve6XgBcWwSam2PQ3beHpWSizADzUYK6zL8z8eh3XyGHwRV5g@mail.gmail.com> <995c27c1-cb48-027f-336c-2c59ebae7aa6@iol.ie>

Dubai has no oil at all! 
Cheers
Jayanand

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> On 12-Sep-2017, at 15:28, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
> 
> I'd agree Bharani, and even though Dubai is slightly more liberal than 
> some of the other places out there, I'd hate to live there. I like 
> Hannes's stuff. The Chill Out Lounge shot shows a sort of haunted 
> emptiness in the man's face and evokes contemplation of the preposterous 
> artificiality of the population's lives living amidst the artificial 
> landscapes of a country wrenched from its back-history by bathloads of oil 
> money.
> 
> Douglas
> 
>> On 12/09/2017 03:10, scleroplex wrote:
>> Dear Tina,
>> I think the fact that it is hard to get into the private spaces that
>> characterise life in the Gulf made Nick's portfolio attractive to the
>> judges.
>> 
>> Dubai and the entire Gulf is a place that loathes transparency and
>> street photography.
>> Women threaten you with arrest or worse for taking photos on public 
>> streets.
>> So of course I usually end up daring them:
>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/scleroplex/35214658460
>> 
>> Cheers!
>> Bharani
>> 
>> 
>> Message: 33
>> Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 18:34:53 -0400
>>> From: Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com>
>> To: MUGers at yahoogroups.com, Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>,
>>         paw <paw at micapeak.com>, seephoto <seephoto at micapeak.com>
>> Subject: [Leica] Dubai
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>> 
>> I continue to be dismayed at what passes for interesting photography these
>> days.  And this is Magnum:
>> 
>> http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170717-striking-photos-of-the-las-vegas-of-the-gulf
>> 
>> This year?s Magnum Awards have just been announced. The documentary series
>> winner, Nick Hannes, gives an insight into his project revealing how
>> Dubai?s super-rich live.
>> 
>> I guess I just don't get it.
>> 
>> Tina
>> 
>> --
>> Tina Manley
>> 
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