The Yemeni Sailors of South Shields

 







































This image by Youssef Nabil is part of 'The Yemeni Sailors of South Shields' (2006), a series of twelve photographs representing elders from the Yemeni community. Nabil's work evokes the glamour and melodrama of the golden age of Egyptian cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. Referring to old movie posters, he makes highly staged, gelatine-silver portraits which he then hand-colours. See Nabil's work in Light from the Middle East: New Photography http://bit.ly/SDYKzK