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ARABIAN TRANSFER – Early morning/Mattina presto. Kuwait City 2017, Souk Sharq

Have you ever come to a city and asked yourself: why am I here? It is a question I ask ...

ARABIAN TRANSFER – Postcards/Cartoline. Dubai 2017, JBR Beach

From "Manhattan Transfer" the great novel by John Dos Passos (1925) that I read during the first editing phase of ...

ARABIAN TRANSFER – Friday I. Dubai 2015, Al Satwa

I had been here three years earlier, I knew the place and that hundreds of men, especially Pakistani, come here ...

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Attività del sabato: guardare bene le prove color

Attività del sabato: guardare bene le prove colore di ‘Arabian Transfer’ appena arrivati da Parigi via Berlino/Hatie Cantz. Network europeo, stampe accurate, 20 gradi e finestra aperta, ottimo umore. #berlinparismilan #colorproofs #fineartpublishing

Today. Printing photographs of ‘Arabian Transfer

Today. Printing photographs of ‘Arabian Transfer’ at the magic Studio GM in Milan, Italy. Rewards are getting ready!

Oggi giornata di stampe per ‘Arabian Transfer’ nel magico Studio GM di Milano. Le prime ricompense sono in arrivo!

HI! @arabian.transfer is a crowdfunding project, a photo book by @michelenastasiphotography, and a journey through six cities of the Arabian Peninsula: #AbuDhabi, #Doha, #Dubai, #KuwaitCity, #Manama, #Riyadh. The book will be published by @hatjecantzverlag in spring 2021.
Signed copies of the book are available for pre-order, and ALL the photographs in the book are available as fine art prints. Check the photographs on my website https://www.michelenastasi.com/portfolio/arabian-transfer/ or the kickstarter page (link in bio), and send me an email to support the project! Thank you!

Ciao! @arabian.transfer è un progetto di crowdfunding, un libro fotografico di @michelenastasiphotography e un viaggio attraverso sei città della penisola araba: #AbuDhabi, #Doha, #Dubai, #KuwaitCity, #Manama, #Riyadh. Il libro sarà pubblicato da @hatjecantzverlag nella primavera del 2021.
Per sostenere il progetto: si possono pre-ordinare copie del libro, e TUTTE le fotografie del libro sono disponibili come stampe fine art. Visita la pagina sul mio sito https://www.michelenastasi.com/portfolio/arabian-transfer/ o la pagina di kickstarter (link in bio) e supporta il progetto! Grazie!

#crowdfundingproject
#instacrowdfunding
#photobook
#contemporaryphotography
#photographicbook
#landscapephotography
#documentaryphotography
#streetphotography
#arabianpeninsula
#skylineobservationpoint
#qatar
#uae
#saudiarabia
#kuwait
#bahrein
#skyline
#fineartprints
#fineartphotography
#mariogovino
#arabianpeninsula #studiogm

Books that penetrate the cities. Reflecting on m

Books that penetrate the cities.

Reflecting on my upcoming book “Arabian Transfer” - following suggestions by Shamoon Zamir.

Of course Dos Passos “Manhattan Transfer” has deeply influenced the editing of my own book.
I didn’t know Andrei Bely's “Petersburg”, I ordered an old copy that arrived today. Will start reading tonight.
The other two are fortunate findings in my library, now I am going to read them again. These are two first editions in Italian that belonged to my great uncle, printed in 1931 and 1933 in Milan.

#shamoonzamir
#arabiantransfer
#manhattantransfer
#thedubliners
#berlinalexanderplatz
#pietroburgo
#novels
#booksoncities
#romanziinitaliano
#books
#originaleditions
#oldbooks

Coming out Badly and Keeping Ahead The World Seri

Coming out Badly and Keeping Ahead

The World Series, 003
Hong Kong, 2013

#world
#planisphere
#golden
#brutalemacongarbo
#globe
#mapoftheworld
#howisourworlddoing
#whereisourworldgoing
#stateoftheworld
#hongkong #hongkongcentral

Lost Bearings The World Series, 002 Paris, 2013

Lost Bearings

The World Series, 002
Paris, 2013

#world
#planisphere
#golden
#brutalemacongarbo
#globe
#mapoftheworld
#howisourworlddoing
#whereisourworldgoing
#stateoftheworld
#paris
#parisberges

Golden, Taped on and in Reverse The World Series

Golden, Taped on and in Reverse

The World Series, 001
Milan, 2020

#world
#planisphere
#golden
#brutalemacongarbo
#globe
#mapoftheworld
#howisourworlddoing
#whereisourworldgoing
#stateoftheworld #milan #milano

Again from “Temporary Cities. Resisting Transien

Again from “Temporary Cities. Resisting Transience in Arabia”, by Yasser Elsheshtawy (Routledge 2020). Thank you Yasser for your acknowledgement, it is good (and rare) to find that your work can influence that of other disciplines. That’s a good thing about being a photographer!

“Michele Nastasi (whose photograph appears on the back cover of this book) is a Milan based photographer and our numerous encounters were always fun and informative – in many ways influencing my approach to photographing cityscapes, a crucial element in laying out the case for the Temporary City”. Photo: Al Satwa, Dubai 2015

@yasser_elsheshtawy
#routledge
#urbanism
#academicbook
#dubai
#satwa
#architecturalphotography
#temporarycities
#uae
#cricket
#sheikzayedroad
#urbanphotography
#brutalemacongarbo
#dubaiuae
@arabian.transfer

Heartly thanks to Yasser Elsheshtawy for mentionin

Heartly thanks to Yasser Elsheshtawy for mentioning me in his book “Temporary Cities. Resisting Transience in Arabia” (Routledge 2020) and for his generous appraisal of my work. A page of this very solid and passionate book is dedicated to the encounters that Yasser had in Dubai with Bas Princen and myself. Here’s my part - I seriously share the idea that photography can not only represent but also capture sentiments of places, cities.
“Another photographer who is taking a different approach is the Milan-based Michele Nastasi. His work oscillates between the commercial requirements of his clients and commissioned projects (by developers and city officials) requiring him to frame buildings in a conventional way, minimizing appearances of distracting elements such as people. But there is another side of his work which seeks to go beyond the formal aspects of a still image, to also suggest a critical discourse, as he conveyed to me in numerous discussions we had in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Milan. One of his most haunting images […] is that of cricket players on an abandoned site in Satwa, Dubai with the high-rises of Sheikh Zayed in the background. The image conveys many of the qualities that are pervasive in the city. In many ways, in my own attempts at photographing and representing the khaliji city, I am also trying to capture such sentiments.”

@yasser_elsheshtawy
#basprincen
#routledge
#urbanism
#academicbook
#dubai
#satwa
#architecturalphotography
#temporarycities
#uae
#cricket
#sheikzayedroad
#urbanphotography
#brutalemacongarbo
#dubaiuae
@arabian.transfer