When in Arabia

After living in New York for 25 years, Lucie-award winning photographer Ghada Khunji returned to her homeland, The Kingdom of Bahrain. She captures its unique light and beautiful shadows through architecture, people and landscape. Despite the advent of the computer age and western-style modernization, Ghada Khunji’s beautiful imagery unveils remnants of Bahrain’s true soul. The images reveal a sense of nostalgia for Bahrain’s past and its many layers of civilization. In this unique series, she shares a few images of her ongoing series of contemporary Bahrain which she started photographing in 2013. “I believe it is important to capture these fleeting moments that will never be the same again. With ever shot is a moment, a breath, a yearning to freeze a piece of the history of my country through my eyes” says Khunji.