A photographic exhibition called “Dubai Transmutations” by Martin Becka opens on Tuesday at the Empty Quarter Fine Art Photography Gallery in Dubai. The exhibition which will run through Nov. 28 is being organized with the Support of the Dubai Culture Authority, the Empty Quarter and Galerie Baudoin Lebon.
It will welcome visitors from 7 to 10 p.m. Princess Reem Al-Faisal will welcome guests on Tuesday.
The city of Dubai has been photographed using the same techniques used 170 yeas ago, a medium that was so resolutely grounded in the particulars of the ‘there and then,’ literally what was in front of the lens when the shutter clicked, showing that photography can, in the hands of a master, remain eternally in the present, as shown in Martin Becka.
Visitors can expect to discover exciting, never-seen-before photography of Dubai. To support this innovative exhibition, the Empty Quarter will be bringing the original camera dating from 1857 to accompany the exhibition, including a darkroom set up from that period.
Besides, as part of this exhibition is an accompanying 40-page book, “Dubai Transmutations,” and a special limited Portfolio Box set.
The images of the thousands of building sites of Dubai’s metamorphosis have been captured with a wooden photographic tool of very large format on negative waxed papers — a process invented approximately 160 years ago by Gustave Le Gray. These photographs were carried out on albumin paper and were toned with gold.