Take a look at this photograph. Three women sit on a rug on the floor. All of them wear ‘traditional’...
Zirrar presents an analysis of modern travel photography using the work of Edward Said and Orientalism. He demonstrates how Orientalist tropes portraying 'natives' are still being used in travel photography today, including in the work of well-known photographers, and endorsed by publications such as National Geographic.
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...
“The camera is a kind of passport that annihilates moral boundaries and social inhibitions, freeing the photographer from any responsibility...
“When we speak of ‘shooting’ with a camera, we are acknowledging the kinship of photography and violence.” Teju Cole This visual essay...
In 1879, when presenting a paper on female suffrage, Louisa Bigg told her audience that, “An Eastern traveler, struck with...
I remember visiting the Jameel Gallery in London’s Victoria and Albert Museum in 2003 as a 17 year old, soon...
When a moral or logical argument cannot be refuted, a common tactic employed by the coloniser, is diversion. Public attention...
Zirrar on the problem with Orientalist art Snake charmers, carpet vendors, devoted worshippers and veiled women; what is it about Orientalist...
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.
Zara Choudhary on living exhibitions or human zoos, that were commonplace in major cities in Europe and North America in...