Date
Client
Layan Cultural Foundation
Category
Event Coverage
Location
Oxford, United Kingdom
- about the project
Three Days at The Ultimate Journey
The Layan Cultural Foundation brought us to Oxford to cover The Ultimate Journey, an exhibition at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies bringing together 36 artists from Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Indonesia, Australia, the UK and beyond.
We were there for three days. Daily photography and video, short interviews with the people behind the work, and a short documentary cut from the whole run.
The works honour the three sacred sites, the Grand Mosque in Makkah, the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah and Al Aqsa in Jerusalem, in everything from calligraphy to abstract art. Filming art is mostly light and patience. You work around visitors, reflections and glass, and the only time you get the room to yourself is early.
