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Check out our photography workshops, state-of-the-art printing services, wide range of 35mm & 120 film, and more! Gulf Photo Plus (GPP) is Dubai’s center for photography, a community organization equipping and inspiring the local and international photography community year-round. With weekly educational workshops and photo walks, photography exhibitions, state-of-the-art printing services, and th

e region's longest-running annual photography event, GPP has long been established as the home of Dubai’s photography community. As part of our commitment to developing regional visual and critical literacy, we also provide opportunities for emerging talent and the wider community to partake in free artist talks, events, portfolio reviews, and more.

31/05/2026

Haraka Baraka by , &
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“Haraka Baraka” (الحركة بركة) is an Arabic expression meaning “movement is a blessing” - a phrase that resonates deeply within skate culture and everyday life alike. Published by SkatePal in collaboration with Lebanese designer Samar Maakaroun, this 224-page hardcover publication offers a vibrant and thoughtful introduction to the Arabic language through the lens of skateboarding, community, and lived experience.⁠
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Bringing together expressions shouted across streets, proverbs rooted in history, and regional dialects shaped by everyday conversation, the book is built through contributions from Palestine’s skateboarding community, local shop owners, volunteers, friends, and members of the global Palestinian diaspora.⁠
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Across original photography, typographic interventions, interviews, and explorations of Arabic script and calligraphy, Haraka Baraka moves between language guide, visual archive, and cultural document. The publication reflects on movement not only as physical action, but as exchange, resilience, connection, and collective spirit.⁠

Designed by with , the book extends the organisation’s ongoing work supporting skateboarding communities across Palestine while celebrating the richness and adaptability of the Arabic language.⁠
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Hardcover | Palestine | 210 × 297 mm | 223 Pages | Published by SkatePal⁠
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Available in-store and online via the link in our bio, or visit: https://gulfphotoplus.com/products/haraka-baraka

24/05/2026

Liminal Cosmos by artist Martin Ong Yambao () is a body of work originates from a collection of undeveloped disposable cameras found in thrift shops. These discarded objects, once memory-preservers, now become vessels of loss, absence, and fragmented remembrance. Through experimental interventions such as misregistration, blurring, and erasure, the recovered images are deliberately destabilized. This aesthetic of distortion protects identities while evoking the impermanence of memory, bringing forth ghostly fragments that explore the tension between presence and disappearance. This series is an extension of the artist’s engagement with postmemory as a method, raising questions about reinterpretation, authorship and the ethics of looking.

Dubai-based artist Martin Ong Yambao, works across moving image, painting, sculpture, and installation. His practice explores the impermanence of memory and its relationship to both personal and collective experience, often engaging with disruption, fragmentation, erasure, and presence through the use of found materials and altered imagery.

Alongside his individual practice, he is one half of memoryall (), a media art studio developing site-specific projections, installations, and performances that weave socioecological narratives into architectural and historical contexts.

Liminal Cosmos was previously presented in The Gateway Exhibition: Seeds of Memory – Migration as Ceremony, Survival, and Renewal, curated by Brook Andrew and Sa Tahanan Co. (.co), founded by and .

The work is currently part of Patterns of Uncertainty, a group exhibition by curated by and , featuring 9 UAE-based artists. On view at , until June 7.

21/05/2026

Moza’s (.samosa) ‘Smoke Fair’ unfolds as a site-specific installation that blurs the line between entrepreneurial fantasy, documentary observation, and self-exposure. Through framed photographic prints, drawings, and the presence of sh**ha itself, the work follows a fictionalised yet familiar figure: a young man attempting to understand addiction, visibility, and market logic through the lens of contemporary hustle culture.

Borrowing the language of automated business advice, online self-help rhetoric, and startup thinking, the installation traces how ambition is shaped by algorithms, spectatorship, and detached forms of research. The protagonist moves through the World Sh**ha Convention as both observer and participant, using the camera as a shield as much as a tool.

Photography becomes a way to distance himself from vulnerability while simultaneously forcing him into moments of uncomfortable attention and intimacy.

What begins as an ironic business experiment slowly collapses into something more personal. As the figure attempts to test “minimal risk” strategies within the art world itself, the work reveals the emotional contradictions behind self-branding, collaboration, and visibility.

Smoke Fair ultimately reflects on the uneasy overlap between commerce and identity, where consumption, performance, and creative practice become difficult to separate.

‘Smoke Fair’ is part of Patterns of Uncertainty, a group exhibition by , curated by and , featuring 9 UAE based artists. On view at , until June 7.

19/05/2026

Quick update on the lab schedule for the Eid holidays 🌙

We’ll be off from Tuesday, May 26 until Friday, May 29.

If you’d like your film developed before Eid, please drop them off by Friday, May 22.

Films dropped off on Monday, May 25 may experience slight delays.

Printing will also be on pause from the 26th and will resume June 1st.

Eid Mubarak! ✨

Have you checked out our new digicam page on gulfphotoplus.com? We wanted it to feel like digging through the internet ...
16/05/2026

Have you checked out our new digicam page on gulfphotoplus.com?

We wanted it to feel like digging through the internet back in the day, a little nostalgic, a little chaotic, and kinda fun

Browse through our wide range of digicams and relive the era of blurry flash photos, mirror selfies, and carrying your camera everywhere just in case something happened

All digicams are available in-store and online, browse the link in our bio or visit: https://gulfphotoplus.com/collections/digicams

Here, The Doors Don’t Know Meby Mohamed Mahdy ()Published by Trobades Camus & Mohamed Mahdy‘Here, The Doors Don’t Know M...
14/05/2026

Here, The Doors Don’t Know Me
by Mohamed Mahdy ()
Published by Trobades Camus & Mohamed Mahdy

‘Here, The Doors Don’t Know Me’ follows the residents of Al-Max, a historic fishing neighbourhood in Alexandria, Egypt, as they face displacement amid rapid urban development. Built collaboratively with the community over several years, the project weaves together photography, handwritten letters, testimonies, and family archives to preserve the memories and identities tied to a disappearing place.

Families contributed personal archives, wrote farewell letters before leaving their homes, and actively shaped how their stories were represented. Through this intimate and collective process, Mohamed Mahdy reflects on memory, loss, belonging, and what remains when a community is physically erased.

Winner of the III Premi Mediterrani Albert Camus Incipiens, the project was recognised for its deep community engagement, inventive visual storytelling, and sensitive portrayal of shared histories.

Text by Al-Max Protagonists, Fred Ritchin, Mohamed Mahdy, and Sandra Maunac

Design by Alejandro Acin & IC Visual Lab

Hardcover | 144 pages + 32-page insert | 17 × 22 cm | Documentary Photography | Egypt | 2026

Available in-store and online via the link in our bio or visit: https://gulfphotoplus.com/products/here-the-doors-dont-know-me?_psq=moh&_v=1.0

Gulf Photo Plus + Photo Plus () is heading to for A Bigger Book Fair 📚We’ll be bringing a selection of SWANA photobooks...
12/05/2026

Gulf Photo Plus + Photo Plus () is heading to for A Bigger Book Fair 📚

We’ll be bringing a selection of SWANA photobooks alongside prints from PPP (Palestine Print Platform). Come by, browse the books, discover new work, and say hi!

🗓️ 15 – 17 May
📍 Copeland Park, 133 Copeland Road London SE15 3SN

Mulhaq: On Annexed Architecture and Peripheral TypologiesBy Architect, Interior Designer, and Founder of Collectus () - ...
28/04/2026

Mulhaq: On Annexed Architecture and Peripheral Typologies
By Architect, Interior Designer, and Founder of Collectus () - Amer Madhoun ()

A research-led exhibition unpacking the Mulhaq beyond its reading as a simple annex — revealing it as a spatial response shaped by culture, regulation, and everyday adaptation. Through drawings, analysis, and linguistic inquiry, the work traces its evolution from courtyard houses to contemporary villas, positioning these “peripheral” structures as essential to how we live, negotiate space, and build informal economies.

By extending the Mulhaq beyond the residential plot, the exhibition reframes marginal architecture as an active force in shaping the city.On view April 5 – May 8, 2026 at Bayt Al Mamzar (), Dubai.

Photos by:
Ysabel Usero ()

Printed at . If you’re working on an exhibition, publication, or spatial project, we partner with you to bring it into physical form: delivering precise, high-quality print and display solutions. Get in touch to exhibit or print with us at Gulf Photo Plus.

Film made effortless 🎞️ The LeBox Flash disposable camera lets you capture 27 vibrant colour shots with all the charm ...
16/04/2026

Film made effortless 🎞️

The LeBox Flash disposable camera lets you capture 27 vibrant colour shots with all the charm of classic film.

With a 31mm lens and 400 ISO film, it’s perfect for snapping moments indoors or outdoors!

No fuss, just authentic results that you’ll love. Plus, the built-in flash has you covered when the lights go low.

Available in-store and online! https://gulfphotoplus.com/products/agfaphoto-lebox-flash-disposable-camera

Tiger’s Eye�by Heba Khalifa ()�Tiger’s Eye is an intimate and layered project that brings together photography, drawing,...
14/04/2026

Tiger’s Eye�by Heba Khalifa ()�

Tiger’s Eye is an intimate and layered project that brings together photography, drawing, and collage, interwoven with personal texts that both parallel and interrupt the visual narrative. The title, drawn from a double meaning in Egyptian Arabic, reflects the cultural taboos surrounding women and the boldness with which Heba Khalifa confronts them.

Working across mediums, Heba Khalifa explores themes of sexual identity, gender, and internal conflict. Her approach treats each project as an evolving journey, using image making and mark-making as tools to document emotional states and lived experiences beyond conventional structures.

The resulting work feels raw and exploratory; a space where fragmented visuals and text come together to express vulnerability, resistance, and self-inquiry. Moments of intimacy and tension unfold through layered compositions that challenge expectations and reclaim narrative agency.

This self-published book presents an extension of Khalifa’s ongoing practice, offering a deeply personal archive that moves between documentation and introspection, where art becomes both witness and process.

Paperback | Egypt | 2025 | Self-Published, supported by and .fund, in collaboration with .books

Available in-store and online via the link in our bio, or visit: https://gulfphotoplus.com/products/tigers-eye

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