• Instead Max Pam visited with only a bag of 60 black-and-white film rolls and a medium format camera. In a similar way to the Sufi mystics that he read about before his trip, he explored the country during a “hot, spare and beautiful Ramadan” in May of that year.
    Instead Max Pam visited with only a bag of 60 black-and-white film rolls and a medium format camera. In a similar way to the Sufi mystics that he read about before his trip, he explored the country during a “hot, spare and beautiful Ramadan” in May of that year.
  • The photos, which Max Pam developed back home, are printed on silver gelatin paper and upon them or around them, he has written his thoughts in journal-like entries.
    The photos, which Max Pam developed back home, are printed on silver gelatin paper and upon them or around them, he has written his thoughts in journal-like entries.
  • This photographic diary, Ramadan in Yemen, was published in 2011 by Éditions Bessard in a limited-edition, 92-page book and the images are making their Middle East debut in East Wing gallery in Dubai this summer.
    This photographic diary, Ramadan in Yemen, was published in 2011 by Éditions Bessard in a limited-edition, 92-page book and the images are making their Middle East debut in East Wing gallery in Dubai this summer.
  • Max Pam cannot make it to the official opening of his exhibition in Dubai, but all visitors need to do is read a few of the handwritten notes alongside the photographs and they will be immediately immersed in his experience.
    Max Pam cannot make it to the official opening of his exhibition in Dubai, but all visitors need to do is read a few of the handwritten notes alongside the photographs and they will be immediately immersed in his experience.
  • In the exhibition statement printed on the wall, Pam says his photographs do the country “justice”, and further describes his experience.
    In the exhibition statement printed on the wall, Pam says his photographs do the country “justice”, and further describes his experience.
  • “People always wanted me to share and be part of their Ramadan, their community, their Yemen,” Max Pam writes. “I travelled all over the country with them. To Shibam, Taizz, Al Mukallah, Sanaa, over the desert, by the sea and into the mountains. [These images] give my version of that unforgettable Ramadan month. An experience freely given to me by the generosity of Yemeni people.”
    “People always wanted me to share and be part of their Ramadan, their community, their Yemen,” Max Pam writes. “I travelled all over the country with them. To Shibam, Taizz, Al Mukallah, Sanaa, over the desert, by the sea and into the mountains. [These images] give my version of that unforgettable Ramadan month. An experience freely given to me by the generosity of Yemeni people.”
  • “I have been waiting for the right time to exhibit this work,” says Elie Domit, the gallery’s founder. “And what better time than Ramadan?”
    “I have been waiting for the right time to exhibit this work,” says Elie Domit, the gallery’s founder. “And what better time than Ramadan?”
  • A cinematic shot of three men on their mopeds riding through the jungle by Max Pam.
    A cinematic shot of three men on their mopeds riding through the jungle by Max Pam.

In pictures: Ramadan in Yemen exhibit by Max Pam

Olga Camacho

July 09, 2014

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Ramadan in Yemen is an exhibit by Australian photographer Max Pam and will run until September 10 at East Wing, Limestone House, DIFC in Dubai. All photos Courtesy Max Pam.

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