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Lujain Yousif Mirza

Lujain Y. Mirza is a visual artist & photographer from Saudi Arabia. She holds a BA in Visual Arts from Queensland University of Technology and an MA degree in Visual Arts/Photogrpahy from Griffith University, Australia. Currently she is a PhD candidate at University of Brighton. In her photographic work there is a combination of the Middle Eastern sense and the Western influence.

She was a part of 6 different exhibitions during her career. Her final participation was at the University of Brighton, being a part of the 2017 “Imaginative Investigations” for postgraduate practice based PhD candidates creative work on display.

Email address: l.mirza@brighton.ac.uk or mirzalujain@gmail.com

Qualification: PhD

Timeframe: 2014-2018

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Thesis title

Photographing Saudi Women: A Collaborative Exploration through Images and Narratives

My research

This research project explores the visual representation of Saudi women living in Saudi Arabia. Due to the conservative nature of Saudi society this continues to be a controversial issue, both in Saudi Arabia and in the West. This project is about using photography as a medium and a critical tool to examine the representation of Saudi women, and reframe their representation in a collaborative process. Understanding the place of photography in Saudi women’s experience, self-perception, and their response to its creative potential as a tool of self-presentation. Revealing the full potential of creative collaborative photography in research and the complexity and multiplicity of Saudi women’s diverse identities.

The methodological framework developed for this collaborative project extended the use of photo-elicitation and qualitative methods of collecting data through photographs and narratives to a Saudi context. This visual research methodology contributes to the literature on photographic representations of Saudi women, by making Saudi women visible and heard, allowing them to access their own photographic narratives. In doing so it provides new insights into Saudi culture and society. It presents a unique contribution through listening to the voices of Saudi women living in Saudi Arabia, gathering and analysing their perspectives through photographic narratives, looking at the ways they negotiate and relate to the photographs, and enabling them to present themselves through their own personal portraits. This project is not only about the theories discussed, it is also about the photographs taken and analysed and the narratives that arose from them.

Funder: Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Saudi Arabia

Awards

2016

  • 1st award of the Research Poster Competition at University of Brighton, UK.

2017

  • 1st award and overall winner of the (Three Minute Thesis) competition at University of Brighton.
  • 1st award and winner of people’s choice, 2017 (Three Minute Thesis) competition.
  • 2nd place in the Research Photography Competition at the Postgraduate Research Festival in Brighton 2017.

Supervisors

Professor Darren Newbury

Dr Dora Carpenter-Latiri

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