Boat Hull

• Photographer
  Mohammed Munir El Kadi
• Agency / Studio
  Tasweeri Photography

Traditional boat making was a thriving profession before the oil boom in the UAE. Now, only a hand full of craftsmen are available to do such the arduous work required in such a profession. The shot was taken in one of the last traditional Boat workshops in Ras Al Khaima, the UAE. In this assignment, I wanted to show the beauty of cemetery in the craftsman work,

I restarted my artistic journey in photography as a form of Sufi meditation and a celebration of our similarities and differences as a human race, as well as those in the physical world around us and what they mean. Chaos and harmony work side by side in a tango of diversity and subtle uniformity. To me photography is a way to transcend from mundane existence to spiritual richness. I am an advocate of the principle concept that photography, in its deepest artistic form, is a three point bridge between the artist, the subject and the eye of the beholder.