{"id":1398,"date":"2017-01-03T15:24:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T12:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nadafund.org\/female-photographers-challenge-taboos-in-yemen\/"},"modified":"2017-01-03T15:24:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T12:24:05","slug":"female-photographers-challenge-taboos-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nadafund.org\/2017\/01\/03\/female-photographers-challenge-taboos-in-yemen.html","title":{"rendered":"Female photographers challenge taboos in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PXQIXoGJHhA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>(29 Dec 2016) LEAD IN:<br \/>\nYemeni female photographers and models are challenging social taboos in the country.<br \/>\nAfter facing some difficulties at the start of their careers, they now say they can do their job with pride. <\/p>\n<p>STORY-LINE:<br \/>\nPhotographer Sahya Al-Asbahi is hard at work.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s one a small number of professional female photographers working in Yemen.<br \/>\nWhat started as a hobby while a pupil at Sanaa&#8217;s German school, grew into passion and finally paid work.<br \/>\n&#8220;I was taking pictures of the simplest things as a hobby. I loved photography. Photography is a spirit. I felt that I found my soul in photography. The photo is a drawing for me, something alive that is moving, greater than words.&#8221;<br \/>\nShe calls her camera &#8220;my sweetheart&#8221; and fears for it due to the threat from &#8220;the militiamen who roam Sanaa&#8217;s streets&#8221; as the country&#8217;s civil war rolls on.<br \/>\nShe takes pictures of the displaced from Yemeni war zones for humanitarian bodies and also snaps away during social celebrations.<br \/>\nHer parents support her on the condition she &#8220;respects morals and religion&#8221;.<br \/>\nWork like this is challenging in a conservative country like Yemen.<br \/>\nWomen here face severe discrimination in law and practice.<br \/>\nThey cannot marry without the permission of their male guardian and do not have equal rights to divorce, inheritance or child custody.<br \/>\nBut photographer Abeer Aziz finds support in her fiance, who she says is open minded.<br \/>\nHer hobby started four years ago with mobile phone snapshots, before taking a course and buying a camera.<br \/>\nHer dream is to become a &#8220;renowned photographer&#8221; and to take pictures all over the world &#8220;without being harassed&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8220;I mean, as soon as they (people) see you holding a camera and shooting, you find some speak badly at you, some say to you &#8216;Why do you shoot here? Go to your home. A woman should be at her home, in the kitchen&#8217;,&#8221; says Aziz, adding that she was also spat on.<br \/>\nIman al-Abssi, 24, cannot afford a camera, she borrows one from a friend. A TV presenter, she is jobless since her programme about tourism was scrapped because of the war.<br \/>\nBut she says the situation is improving and more people accept her as a female photographer.<br \/>\nWedyan Almamary has another passion, this time in front of the camera.<br \/>\n&#8220;At first, some difficulties took place, and I used to obey people. And later, I tried to be more positive. Thanks to Allah, my family was supportive of this thing. The people around me are proud of me. I did not lend my ears to the society because if you lend your ears to the society you will do nothing.&#8221;<br \/>\nPosing as a model was Almamary&#8217;s way of pushing the norm in a country where the majority of women would not venture outside their house barefaced.<br \/>\nA journalist at a media company, a photographer approached her asking her to pose.<br \/>\nShe has since appeared in nine commercials and participated in &#8220;numerous&#8221; local fashion shows.<br \/>\nThe dresses she flaunts are long and do not allow for a glimpse of skin to show.<br \/>\nMona Abdallah, an activist working on women issues, believes the conflict has strangely been the catalyst new ideas and, though painful, eased the constraints bounding women.<br \/>\n&#8220;In the past (for) women it was impossible to see young women that are not veiled. We did not see young women in the media, only a small number, two or three, four or even ten, we can say. But the society&#8217;s perception changed, and there exists awareness now. We find young women in all aspects, all fields and at all levels. We find the politician, we find the journalist, we find the media worker, we find the photographer, we find the model, we find the professor, you find the doctor.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;We find women at all levels, and they have proven their role,&#8221; she adds.<\/p>\n<p>You can license this story through AP Archive: http:\/\/www.aparchive.com\/metadata\/youtube\/f4ee66088ae5dce521e429a68e9325f2<br \/>\nFind out more about AP Archive: http:\/\/www.aparchive.com\/HowWeWork<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PXQIXoGJHhA\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(29 Dec 2016) LEAD IN: Yemeni female photographers and models are challenging social taboos in the country. After facing some difficulties at the start of their careers, they now say they can do their job with pride. 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