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Arab Image Foundation

Great news to lovers of the art of photography and particularly "Arab Photography". The Arab Image Foundation, Beirut’s pioneering non-profit archive of Middle Eastern photography, has launched an online platform that makes 22,000 images from the collection accessible and searchable for the first time. Read more at this article from The Art Newspaper.
Selim Abu Izzedine’s Portrait of a woman on a horse (1900s, Egypt) has been digitally converted from a gelatin silver negative on glass
Faysal Abu Izzeddin Collection; Courtesy of the Arab Image Foundation

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