Twenty-nine years
old photojournalist Amira Al-Sharif was born in Saudi Arabia and
raised in Yemen. Working as a female photojournalist in Yemen, where
most of her fellow Yemeni photographers are male, she continues to
push cultural and societal boundaries. Working as a female
photojournalist in Yemen. She worked as a freelancer for some English
newspapers and magazines in Yemen and abroad as Yemen Observer, the
Spectrum Newspaper, National Yemen, Yemen Times, Yemeni magazine, and
NY Times.
Her work get published at English and Arabic newspapers as
well as the Netherlands Embassy, HOOD for Defending Human Rights, Oxfam, and
UNICEF in Yemen, and abroad Abu Dhabi, Jordon, NY Times, and USA
Selected
as one of the 150 women Who Shake The World by
Newsweek and the Daily Beast, New York 2011 as she considered to be a
culture
bridge. Being an educator presenting her project entitled “Faces of
Yemen” in
Suffolk University, Boston, 2011 as well as my last year project at ICP
“Unveiling Misconception: A Muslim Woman documents the lives of American
Women.” She did unofficial talk to UN Women staff in NYC about her life
as a
female photojournalist and both her photography in Yemen and US July
2011.
Amira began working as a professional photographer in 2005
for the Yemen Observer, the Spectrum Newspaper, and eventually for the Yemen
Times 2008, where she bravely covered stories as both photographer and reporter
on political upheaval and impoverished living conditions in southern Yemen. Her
work has also been published in the Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates.
In 2009 Amira worked with Oxfam International and UNICEF, as they worked around
her home country of Yemen.
Winning First place in 2008 and 2010 in the Yemen Ministry
of Tourism photography competition, Amira and her work has caught the eyes of
many around the world. She held a solo exhibition at the French Cultural Center
in Yemen in honor of the 60th Anniversary of the Global Declaration of Human
Rights in Yemen. She participated in a Full-Time student exhibition at the
International Center of Photography, NYC, USA, 2011.
Amira hopes that through her photography she can communicate
and give a more honest look at the people of Yemen and their culture, which may
not be accurately represented in the media today.
Amira just finished her one year program as a full-time
student in the school at the International Center of Photography in New York
City, studying photojournalism and developing a project looking at the lives of
American women in their 20’s and connecting them to the lives of her and her
sisters back in Yemen. Currently Amira based in Sana’a, teaching
photojournalism to Yemeni photographers and documenting the Yemeni revolution.
To view a sample of Amira's work, visit her Yemeni Dreams gallery on Gulfography.com
To view a sample of Amira's work, visit her Yemeni Dreams gallery on Gulfography.com
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