Samy Al Olabi - Photography

Samy Al Olabi , Egyptian Syrian multi-award winning photographer who is currently based in Dubai UAE. Inspired by his love for nature and night skies, he reaches for the stars from the dark corners of Arabia. Astronomy, Arts and Adventure were his greatest passion since he was a child, When he grew up and took Construction Management as a source of living, his devotion and commitment to his passion eventually led him to where he is right now , His body of work in astrophotography is regarded as one of the best in the region , a true category benchmark. Samy is a true believer that breaking the trends and thinking outside the box is what every photographer should do to standout with his work, Every now and then he starts a conceptual photography project , he sometimes mixes abstract and miniatures with astrophotography using technically complex and lengthy process of focus stacking , exposure stacking in addition to star stacking , resulting in some amazing photographs. One of his recent projects “Nowhere Land” was globally acclaimed amongst international entities , it went viral and got published worldwide. In addition to his conceptual photographs , Al Olabi produced some beautiful panoramas of the night skies and deep sky objects with diversity of compositions , some of which became iconic backgrounds for Microsoft and Apple operating systems. His work & photography articles are regularly featured in various international magazines & newspapers , with most notable contributions in Practical photography Magazine , Petapixel , CNN , DIYphotography , Nphoto , BBC sky at night National Geographic. This is in addition to some top national magazines & newspapers.