Louis Vuitton’s photographer in Dubai

Every summer for the last 12 years, Cannes has become an open-air exhibition of fashion and beauty photography, with hundreds of life-size works by leading fashion photographers displayed on the glamorous city’s Croisette seafront as part of the International Festival of Fashion Photography.

Now it’s all coming to the UAE for the first time in DXB Fashion Photography, a week-long free exhibition at Mall of the Emirates’ Central Galleria.

Starting on January 7, 50 large-format photos from the 2014 exhibition by the likes of Marcelo Benfield, Iris Brosch, Daniele Cipriani, Sune Czajkowski, Lucia Giacani, Nancy Fina and Anita Bresser go on display in Dubai, alongside 10 works by five local and regional photographers — Emirati photographers Nasser Ali and Fatma Hilal, Maha Nasra Edde from Lebanon, Atif Abu Samra from Sudan and Adel Rashid from Syria.

The star of the show is Baghdad-born fashion photographer Mazen Saggar, known for his work with Louis Vuitton (he’s the fashion house’s preferred photographer). He opens the event on January 7 and will be mingling with fans of fashion and photography from 11am.

Original article by Natalie Long

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