ARAMCO - Above the Oil Fields

ARAMCO, documents life inside Dhahran, a compound originally built for the American workers of the wealthy Saudi Arabian Oil Company.

About the author

Ayesha Malik divides her time between New York City and Saudi Arabia working on self-directed photo projects. Her work has been featured in Time Lightbox, VICE Magazine, Le Monde's M Magazine, The New York Times, Refinery29, and Offset, amongst others.

Summary

ARAMCO, documents life inside Dhahran, a compound originally built for the American workers of the wealthy Saudi Arabian Oil Company.

Additional text

“While the book is undoubtedly documentary, Ms. Malik’s account is first and foremost a personal investigation of her own memory."
- The New York Times, June 20, 2017
“Here, cultures that usually clash blend together, and identity outgrows simple, nationalistic terms.”,
- Aperture, September 14, 2017
...a strangely personal, honest, and childlike view of a place that, to most, seems bizarre.”,
- Vice, September 13, 2017

Product details

• Assisted by: Ayesha Malik (Photographer), Ayesha Malik (Photographs)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781942084365
• ISBN: 978-1-942084-36-5
• Dimensions: 330 mm x 279 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 2036 g
• Illustrations: 70 color photographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Places & peoples: general & pictorial works, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intergovernmental Organizations, PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / Monographs, HISTORY / Middle East / Arabian Peninsula, Political structure & processes, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, Photographs: collections, Individual photographers, Middle Eastern history, Arabian Peninsula, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional, Photography and photographs, Places and peoples: general and pictorial works, International institutions / intergovernmental organizations