Back to Dubai where the West and East co-habit. You can wear and act however you want, while remaining sensitive to local culture and tradition. Dubai represents everything we consider progressive and developed while at its core it is anchored by a proud culture and identity. A welcome home to all @tasneemalsultan for @burndiary
Dana Stolzgen In Still Air This is a photographic poem. As with any poem, explanation wouldn’t do any good. But I can tell you about its title. I first imagined the title in German: ‘Bei Windstille’, which means that there is no wind. There is an absence and, because of this absence, there is stillness. …
Finished shooting yesterday’s Saudi wedding at 3am and took the noon flight back home. Rushing from one car to another, and on the plane I finally sat for an hour to think calmly. Observing the Saudi man sitting across me, working on his laptop throughout the flight, I started wondering. We take our jobs for …
I always love it if a client buys me a first class ticket.. Usually however I am flying economy. Of course like all experienced economy flyers I hv learned how to always get an exit row aisle seat OR by the right attitude at check in counter get a whole center row and end up …
Weddings in the Arab world usually begin late in the evening. Tonight’s Saudi bride has started getting ready at 2pm but has asked her guests to arrive at 10pm so that she can enter the grand ballroom at 11pm. In Saudi, and all the neighboring countries, this is considered normal. I’m expecting the wedding to …
I just received in London 4 different paper proof sheets from my Italian printer for the upcoming 1967 retro book Tell It Like It Is on the Liggins family in Norfolk Va .. we won’t go to press until everything is PERFECT…I am a total disaster at many things but when it comes to my …
As the young Saudi woman browses through the many books in a local setup market she checks her phone. Everyone here is plugged to a smart phone. I think I saw my 7-yr-old cousin with a phone, too. She has an Instagram account too. @tasneemalsultan for @burndiary
When I’m in Saudi on a Friday, my father will always have us join him to the Friday prayer at the mosque. He’ll ask us to listen to the lecture, and then debate at home and see if we can apply anything we’ve learned. Since we were schooled in England, we went to a catholic …
Hi! This is Tasneem! @tasneemalsultan I’m a Saudi/American photographer shooting mostly weddings in the Middle East and anywhere I get to travel to. Very happy to have the opportunity to share my life on Burn Dairy for a week. Super nervous too! This is my father drinking his tea, in Saudi, as he usually does …
