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A contemplative study of the nature of the photograph and how it speaks to us, of what can and cannot be retrieved in a photo, how memories attach and vanish and the hope of representing what cannot be seen, a reaching back in time, ‘The same sting, the same enchantment That there is more to a shot than just a picture.’ Mohammad Kheder ranges through many types of photograph, from the family portrait and ID photos that cannot reveal where you are from, to his house on Google Earth, pictures of musicians, film stars and photographs of writers and philosophers concerned with how we perceive. He studies photos of Cocteau, Mandela and Emmeline Pankhurst, celebrating a: ‘photograph, just a photograph in which we read a new poem,’ and examining how photos create a ‘unique connection with things we see for the first time And how they transform into icons as wide as we can see.’ For the poet, the photograph creates the myths of our existence, making us conscious of how we see.

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Muhammad Kheder Al-Ghamdi, a Saudi poet, was born in 1976, in Abha, southern Saudi Arabia. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Arabic language and has published several poetry collections and one novel. He also participated in a wide range of cultural festivals, such as the Bahrain Cultural Resource Forum, The Young Poets Festival in Yemen, the First Prose Poem Forum in Cairo, the first Madad Forum in Damascus, and the Arabic Prose Poem Forum in Cairo, among others. He has been the editor of the Cultural Supplement in the UAE newspaper Al-Ittihad since 2009 and he is a founder of the Madad Cultural Forum 2005.

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