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Arif Al-Nomay
born in Ibb, Yemen in 1970. enrolled in education at the age of twelve when the first school in his area opened. He moved to Abha in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the end of 1989, where he worked in a photography studio During this period, he came into regular contact with a group of artists who had formed a radical collective at Abha’s Al Meftaha Arts Village.
That artists collective, which called itself Shatta meaning ‘to be broken apart’, included Ahmed Mater, Ashraf Fayadh, and Abdulnasser Gharem, and went on to establish a movement which changed the Saudi art scene forever.
As customers of Abha Photo Lab, the artists collaborated with him and they began to experiment with the medium of photography as an art form and as a platform to discuss cultural issues with there community.
He continued to work at the Photo lab throughout the late 90s and early 2000s, when I began introducing the artists to the technological revolution of digital photography.
Arif is a Yemini artist and photographer based between Yemen and Saudi arabia. He explores and preserves the narratives, aesthetics, in the cultural memory of Yemen.
he use the camera and mixed media

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