Sadiq Y. Al-harasi

صادق الحراسي - اليمن فنان بصري يعمل بتقاطعات الهوية مع الذاكرة يعمل حاليا في تطوير مشروعه الوثائقي الطويل "ماذا يترك الاباء خلفهم؟" عندما كنت اتتبع الغياب في حياتي تقاطعت مع غيابات عدة. الموت، السفر، الهجرة، والرحيل جميعها تجارب تُشكل هوياتنا. Sadiq Al-Harasi - Yemin Sadiq is a visual artist working with the intersection of identity and memory. Currently, he's developing his long-term documentary photography project "What Do Fathers Leave Behind?" While tracing the absence in my life I crossed with other absences. Death, travel, migration, and leaving are all themes that are crucial in shaping our identities.

Sadiq Al-Harasi is a cultural practitioner, emerging artist, and storyteller based in Yemen. Sadiq works with various art mediums. His artworks focus on the intersection of culture, identity, social justice, and the relationships between people and their environment. صادق الحراسي هو ممارس ثقافي وفنان ناشئ وراوي قصص من اليمن. يعمل صادق عبر وسائط فنية متنوعة، وتتركز أعماله على تقاطعات الثقافة والهوية والعدالة الاجتماعية، وكذلك على العلاقات بين الناس وبيئتهم. 📷: @disolutio

🥁 Drum rolls 🥁 We are very excited to announce the five artists selected for the first open call of the project Arab Artists Now: An Anthology. We would like to thank all the applicants for the interest and enthusiasm shown in their applications and work. We would also like to extend our appreciation to the short-listed artists who have shown a comparable level of potential but didn't make it to the final selection. You will hear more about their practices soon 😉 This cluster is curated by Ali Yasser Atef, investigating the concept of Moving Memory. Stay tuned for more updates. 🥁 وبعد طول انتظار 🥁 يسعدنا أن نعلن عن الفنانين الخمسة المقبولين للدعوة العامة الأولى لمشروع مقتطفات. نود أن نشكر جميع المتقدمين على الاهتمام والحماس الذي أظهروه في طلباتهم وأعمالهم. نود أيضًا أن نعبر عن تقديرنا للفنانين المختارين للقائمة القصيرة الذين أظهروا مستوى مماثلًا من الاهتمام ولكن لم يصلوا إلى المجموعة النهائية. ستسمعوا المزيد عن ممارساتهم قريبًا 😉 قيم هذه المجموعه هو علي ياسر عاطف، وسيقوم بالاشتباك مع مفهوم الذاكرة المتحركة. #AANA #Kohllective

on a cold February day I had a patient outside eye 👁️ witnessing my slow and not perfect practice. It was one of the studio days, when you have no agenda or plan and the first signs of not-too-distant spring sun is filling you with gratitude. Less and less often I experience artistic days, that don’t need to result in anything, the world just spins too fast to quiet the mind, you also feel it, right? So I thought of sharing this beautiful state with you, let us all have more slow creative times. 📸 by an incredibly talented @sadiqyhash for his project at @dmjxphoto #visualstorytelling #artistday #dancer

What Do Fathers Leave Behind? - Sadiq Yahia Al-Harasi | VAiF25 - Portofolio Open Call Exhibition [EN Following in GR] One of the seven portfolios selected in this year’s VAiF25 Open Call Portfolios is by Sadiq Yahia Al-Harasi (YEM), titled “What Do Fathers Leave Behind?” This project is a deeply personal journey through memory, loss, and the search for paternal connection. Through his mother’s stories, the traces of his father’s village, and his own reflections, Al-Harasi reconstructs a portrait of absence — finding fragments of identity and belonging along the way. His mother becomes the guardian of their shared past, bridging lives and generations, while photography becomes a means of healing and remembrance, transforming longing into quiet understanding. The exhibition was presented at the Former Municipal Slaughterhouses of Thessaloniki – Labattoir, as part of VAiF25, from 29.11.2025 to 21.12.2025. 📷📹 @s.kesidis 🔗 More via the link in bio [GR] Ένα από τα επτά portfolios που επιλέχθηκαν στο φετινό Open Call Portfolios του VAiF25 είναι του Sadiq Yahia Al-Harasi (YEM) με τον τίτλο “What Do Fathers Leave Behind?” Το έργο είναι μια προσωπική αναζήτηση γύρω από τη μνήμη, την απώλεια και την πατρική κληρονομιά. Μέσα από αφηγήσεις, οικογενειακές αναμνήσεις και τοπία που κουβαλούν ίχνη του πατέρα του, ο Al-Harasi επιχειρεί να συνθέσει την απουσία, ανακαλύπτοντας ταυτόχρονα τον εαυτό του. Η μητέρα του, ως φορέας των ιστοριών και των συναισθημάτων, γίνεται γέφυρα ανάμεσα στις γενιές — ενώ η φωτογραφία λειτουργεί ως πράξη συμφιλίωσης, μεταμορφώνοντας τη μνήμη σε χώρο οικειότητας και κατανόησης. Η έκθεση παρουσιάστηκε στο κτήριο των Πρώην Δημοτικά Σφαγεία Θεσσαλονίκης – Labattoir, στο πλαίσιο του VAiF25, από τις 29.11.2025 έως τις 21.12.2025. 📷📹 @s.kesidis 🔗 Δείτε περισσότερα στο link in bio #VAiF25 #WhatDoFathersLeaveBehind #ExhibitionSetup #BehindTheScenes #Labattoir

⚡️ We are glad to feature the work of another mentee of our 2025 mentorship programme. The Yemen-based visual artist Sadiq Al-Harasi addresses questions of identiy and family. His project “What Do Fathers Leave Behind?” was mentored by Danaé Panchaud. ⁠ •⁠ I’ve spent my life searching for my father, trying to piece together the fragments he left behind. I’ve longed to hear his stories—his adventures, sacrifices, and countless journeys. His absence compelled me to delve into the remaining physical archives of our family. But I wonder: does the past exist as we remember it? How far does memory stretch across the distance created by time? My ongoing project, “What Do Fathers Leave Behind?” is an auto-ethnographic exploration of the absence. It materialises the loss of a father, identity, and the past and future selves of both my father and me. Through this project, I explore the intricate relationship between identity, loss, belonging, and memory, utilising family archives, photography, writing, and sound."⁠ •⁠ Our mentorship programme, based on a 1:1 mentorship through which an artist supports another artist in the development of an ongoing project, will be renewed in 2026. Keep posted.⚡️⁠ •⁠ #mentorship #peers #family #b&w #archive #identity @danaepanchaud @sadiqyhash

‏We’re honored to showcase Sadiq Al-Harasi project, “What We Hide Behind the Windows? Which is a photo essay, through, which he tried to observe and explore the dynamic of moving on the rural roads (Between Sana’a and Amran in Yemen) and how the people interact with the roads and their surroundings in the rural areas. ‏Discover the full Project and explore other featured projects by visiting our website يستكشف مشروع صادق الحراسي، “ما الذي نُخفيه خلف النوافذ؟” محاولة المراقبة واستكشاف ديناميكية الحركة على الطرق الريفية (بين صنعاء وعمران في اليمن)، وكيف يتفاعل الناس مع الطرق ومحيطهم في المناطق الريفية. لمعرفة المزيد عن المشروع أو عن مشاريع أخرى، قم بزيارة موقعنا

Arab Documentary Photography Program #ADPP 2024 projects series continues with Sadiq Al-Harasi's "What Do Fathers Leave Behind?". In this deeply personal photo project, Sadiq traces the emotional and physical landscapes of loss, as he pieces together the story of his father through memory, place, and intimate reflection. Program with support from: @princeclausfund @magnumfoundation @norway.in.lebanon Music credits: AFAC 2016 Grantee @kabreetmusic نستكمل سلسلة مشاريع دورة العام 2024 من برنامج التصوير الفوتوغرافي الوثائقي العربي مع صادق الحراسي و"ماذا يترك الآباء خلقهم؟". في مشروعه الشخصي هذا، يتتبع صادق ملامح الفقدان العاطفي والمادي، حيث يجمع شتات قصة والده من خلال الذاكرة والمكان والتأمل الشخصي.

Portofolio Open Call Exhibition | VAiF25 [EN Following in GR] One of the seven portfolios selected in this year’s VAiF25 Open Call Portfolios is by Sadiq Yahia Al-Harasi (YEM), titled “What Do Fathers Leave Behind?” This project is a deeply personal journey through memory, loss, and the search for paternal connection. Through his mother’s stories, the traces of his father’s village, and his own reflections, Al-Harasi reconstructs a portrait of absence — finding fragments of identity and belonging along the way. His mother becomes the guardian of their shared past, bridging lives and generations, while photography becomes a means of healing and remembrance, transforming longing into quiet understanding. 📸 Part of the VAiF 2025 Open Call Portfolio [GR] Ένα από τα επτά portfolios που επιλέχθηκαν στο φετινό Open Call Portfolios του VAiF25 είναι του Sadiq Yahia Al-Harasi (YEM) με τον τίτλο “What Do Fathers Leave Behind?” Το έργο είναι μια προσωπική αναζήτηση γύρω από τη μνήμη, την απώλεια και την πατρική κληρονομιά. Μέσα από αφηγήσεις, οικογενειακές αναμνήσεις και τοπία που κουβαλούν ίχνη του πατέρα του, ο Al-Harasi επιχειρεί να συνθέσει την απουσία, ανακαλύπτοντας ταυτόχρονα τον εαυτό του. Η μητέρα του, ως φορέας των ιστοριών και των συναισθημάτων, γίνεται γέφυρα ανάμεσα στις γενιές — ενώ η φωτογραφία λειτουργεί ως πράξη συμφιλίωσης, μεταμορφώνοντας τη μνήμη σε χώρο οικειότητας και κατανόησης. 📸 Από το Open Call VAiF 2025 Portfolio🔗 Δες περισσότερα στο link στο bio #VAiF25 #vaif25_results #VAiFportfolio #SadiqYahiaAlHarasi #WhatDoFathersLeaveBehind?#PhotographyPortfolioOpenCall #ContemporaryPhotography #NarrativePhotography #VisualArtsInternationalFestival #PhotoExhibition #OpenCallResults #InternationalPhotography #StorytellingThroughImages #PhotoCommunity #PhotographyFestival

Introducing Sadiq al-Harasi ✨ Sadiq al-Harasi is a visual artist and cultural practitioner from Yemen and based in Amman, whose work explores iconographies of displacement. His pictures of roads, borders, walls and windows emphasize silent structures that codify social movement. His art grapples with missing subjects and shifting symbols, cutting away and layering figures and landscapes. Multimedia experiments meld digital and cyanotype photography with collage, embroidery, and archives; rewiring loss and liberation through threads and horizon lines. Al-Harasi has exhibited locally, virtually, and internationally at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, Bozar; SOMA Art in Berlin; Zara Centre in Amman; and the M7 museum in Doha. He is also a Prince Claus Fellow and awardee of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture and Magnum Foundation. — LagosPhoto 2025 Opening October 25, 2025 At the African Artists’ Foundation space. — #lagosphotofestival #lagos #lagosphoto25 #visualpolitics #photographyasaddress #powerofimages #assumedviewer #ideologicalframing #criticalvisualpractice #alternativepublics #visualagency #reflexiveimagery #politicsofrepresentation

In "What Fathers Leave Behind", @sadiqyhash pieces together the presence of a man he never fully knew: his father. Through family archives, cyanotypes, and landscapes filled with longing, Sadiq turns mourning into pictures. Absence isn’t empty here, it’s full of questions, echoes, and pieces of a life that ended too soon. #documentaryphotographer #documentaryphotography #magnumphotos #everydaymiddleeast #yemen #photojournalism #photographer #photojournalist

My mother has always been my primary source of numerous things. She was my first love, the first song I ever heard was sung by her voice, and the first storyteller I’ve ever encountered. Despite being an uneducated villager, she taught me how to interact with people around me, how to love the land, homeland, family, and the concept of dignity. She was the one who imparted so many valuable lessons about life. She taught me how to laugh, how to preserve memories, and how to transform grief into a song. Every time I take a photograph of my mother, I don’t feel compelled to capture a specific moment with her, but rather I strive to prevent her from leaving, to protect her from the death that would take her away from me. A Portrait of My Mother - Safia - in her Village. ‘Amran, Yemen 2024