Vantage Point Sharjah - in pictures

  • Vantage Point Sharjah is running until January 14 at the Old Al Diwan Al Amiri in Sharjah. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
    Vantage Point Sharjah is running until January 14 at the Old Al Diwan Al Amiri in Sharjah. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
  • The event usually hosts dozens of photographers but is focusing on a handful this year. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
    The event usually hosts dozens of photographers but is focusing on a handful this year. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
  • Each photographer has an individual exhibition space. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
    Each photographer has an individual exhibition space. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
  • There is also a communal area that puts their work in conversation. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
    There is also a communal area that puts their work in conversation. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
  • Oumaima Abaraghe's work responds to the fragmentation and inaccessibility of Morocco’s colonial archive. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
    Oumaima Abaraghe's work responds to the fragmentation and inaccessibility of Morocco’s colonial archive. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
  • In History as they present it, Abaraghe crops historical photographs and obscures their original subjects. Photo: Razmig Bedirian / The National
    In History as they present it, Abaraghe crops historical photographs and obscures their original subjects. Photo: Razmig Bedirian / The National
  • Abaraghe’s work reflects the traumas Morocco suffered under French colonial rule. Photo: Razmig Bedirian / The National
    Abaraghe’s work reflects the traumas Morocco suffered under French colonial rule. Photo: Razmig Bedirian / The National
  • Mohamed Mahdy sees being a documentary photographer as providing his subjects with an avenue of expression. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
    Mohamed Mahdy sees being a documentary photographer as providing his subjects with an avenue of expression. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
  • Mahdy's work features overlooked communities in Egypt, most of whom are marginalised. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
    Mahdy's work features overlooked communities in Egypt, most of whom are marginalised. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
  • In A place to begin, Mahdy spotlights the Sufi pilgrimage to the remote Egyptian town of Humaithara. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
    In A place to begin, Mahdy spotlights the Sufi pilgrimage to the remote Egyptian town of Humaithara. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
  • In Here, The Doors Don't Know Me, he highlights fishing communities in Alexandria. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
    In Here, The Doors Don't Know Me, he highlights fishing communities in Alexandria. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
  • From left, Nana Ofosu Adjei, Manuela Nebuloni and Courage Dzidula Kpodo make up the Postbox Ghana collective. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
    From left, Nana Ofosu Adjei, Manuela Nebuloni and Courage Dzidula Kpodo make up the Postbox Ghana collective. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
  • The collective used an abandoned silo in Ghana as an exhibition space to display archival images. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
    The collective used an abandoned silo in Ghana as an exhibition space to display archival images. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
  • Yashna Kaul’s practice springs from family photographs she discovered in her family home in India. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
    Yashna Kaul’s practice springs from family photographs she discovered in her family home in India. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
  • Kaul's father is the prime subject of her Hands of God series. Photo: Razmig Bedirian / The National
    Kaul's father is the prime subject of her Hands of God series. Photo: Razmig Bedirian / The National
  • Kaul obscures family photographs so that the images are focused on her father's hands. Photo: Razmig Bedirian / The National
    Kaul obscures family photographs so that the images are focused on her father's hands. Photo: Razmig Bedirian / The National
  • Clea Rekhou's work examines the rehabilitation attempts of men who have committed domestic violence. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
    Clea Rekhou's work examines the rehabilitation attempts of men who have committed domestic violence. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
  • Rekhou's Monsieur series focuses on the men's family members and the trauma they endured. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
    Rekhou's Monsieur series focuses on the men's family members and the trauma they endured. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
  • The On the Edge series follows one of the men as he returns to his family. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
    The On the Edge series follows one of the men as he returns to his family. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
  • Vantage Point Sharjah is organised by the Sharjah Art Foundation. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
    Vantage Point Sharjah is organised by the Sharjah Art Foundation. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National