“The cannon compels the body, the school bewitches the soul” — Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Ambiguous Adventure The most violent spectacles...
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Challenging Orientalism
Take a look at this photograph. Three women sit on a rug on the floor. All of them wear ‘traditional’...
Zara is joined by Sacred Footsteps' writers and photographers Ali and Omar Rais, and Chirag Wakaskar, a photographer based in Mumbai, India and creator of the @everydaymumbai project on Instagram.
In 1879, when presenting a paper on female suffrage, Louisa Bigg told her audience that, “An Eastern traveler, struck with...
“When we speak of ‘shooting’ with a camera, we are acknowledging the kinship of photography and violence.” Teju Cole This visual essay...
When a moral or logical argument cannot be refuted, a common tactic employed by the coloniser, is diversion. Public attention...
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt commented in his book, The Future of Islam, that Islam needs to “work out for itself a Reformation,”...
Famed explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton gained his highly regarded reputation through his many voyages across the eastern world, or...
Zara Choudhary on living exhibitions or human zoos, that were commonplace in major cities in Europe and North America in...
“The camera is a kind of passport that annihilates moral boundaries and social inhibitions, freeing the photographer from any responsibility...
In episode seven, Zara and Yasmine talk to Ali and Zain Haider about the legacy of Edward Said and look at modern day travel photography through the lens of Orientalism. They discuss the ways in which ‘othering’ still takes place, and how well regarded photographers, intuitions and publications are still promoting that narrative. They also examine questions of identity and consent; and ‘self-Orientalisation’ among poc photographers and communities.
