Farah Al Qasimi (born 1991) is a photographer from the

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, living in Brooklyn, New York. She is known for her photographs of life in the

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Life and work

Al Qasimi earned a BA from

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. In 2018 she moved to New York City and worked as an administrator for

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before returning to Yale for her MFA. Beginning on January 29, 2020, "Back and Forth Disco," her series of seventeen photographs, were installed on one hundred bus shelters throughout New York City as part of a project for the

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. Her work was on display at the

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at the

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from July 30 to October 20, 2019. She teaches at

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and the

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. In 2018 she was awarded the Artadia Prize by the New York

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. She was included in the Forbes list of 30 Under 30 - Art & Style 2020. She is a classically trained pianist, and writes music for her own films.

Exhibitions

* ''Artist Rooms: Farah Al Qasimi'', Jameel Art Center, Dubai (2019) * ''Back and Forth Disco'',

(various locations around New York City) (2019) * ''Brotherville'', Wayne State University Undergraduate Library, Detroit (2020) * ''Farah Al Qasimi: Star Machine,'' The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (2023) * ''Farah Al Qasimi,'' C/O Berlin, Germany (2023)

Publications

*''Hello, Future'' (Capricious, 2021)

References

21st-century photographers Living people Emirati photographers Emirati women artists Yale School of Art alumni Pratt Institute faculty Rhode Island School of Design faculty Emirati expatriates in the United States 1991 births 21st-century women photographers {{Photographer-stub