I get attracted by sunlight ,shadows ,the birds & people’s daily life .

 You have quite a mixture of photographs ranging from reportage, to portraits to simple details of every day objects and things you’ve found on the street. What is your process / thought process when going out and taking photos?

Well to me I think everything in my country is created just to be captured, our traditional clothes, our religion and how people here are so religious. I adore the poor people’s life they’re so simple and their lives are full of color and smiles. They welcome anyone and when I go around photographing, they welcome me.

I love to capture everything that is simple and beautiful at the same time. I can see it in every neighbourhood here. The people and how they communicate with each other, families, friends, everyone.

I capture street life… the happiest, saddest and unusual moments.

             Do you face any challenges going out taking photos of people on the street? Especially as a woman, some Artists have stated walking on the streets can be quite difficult, have you faced this or do you tend to snap when you are simply passing by?

As a woman I like to walk alone taking photos. And yeah once I did face a bad issue, when I was in AlMadinah, AlMonawarah I was trying to take photos of a man selling colored fabrics and it was so beautiful how he threw the fabrics in the air in front of women from different countries then suddenly when I was trying to capture the scene someone was so close to me and pulled my camera from the holder & yelled at my face asking me to delete all the photos. I was scared because I was alone with this strange man and its affected me which started to make be a little more careful and aware when I am alone. But that was the first incident and after that it has been okay and I just take someone with me at all times.

Do you use your phone or your camera?

Now I only use my phone.

If your phone, is there a particular reason why?

I used to post on Instagram photos by my camera with the ones by my phone. I don’t really knew what’s was my goal from photographing, I posted photos to get likes and comments from people.

One day I saw a post on instagram and there was account has the same as my last name liked what I posted, I was interested because he had an artistic account, I checked his profile & I was surprised his photos was amazing so I followed him. After that he liked some of my photos and wrote comments on my photos that I took with my phone and wrote something like you have good eye in taking photos try to focus on that and use that particular program. After that I started to use my phone and now I can’t stop thanking that man enough.

Connect us with a few of your favourite Artists or instagram accounts at the moment.

@stevemccurryofficial / @mihaelanoroc / @atheer93 / @almalkimedia / @hesh4m

Lastly how do you reconnect to your culture and/or Identity?

By going to the historical places & through the social life in my country.

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