25 September 2010 – 2 April 2011
Tell us a bit about the exhibition
It is around 50 -55 pictures of people and places in Yemen.
What aspects attract you to the middle and Far East?
Everything is different to what you are used to at home and your brain has to work creatively all the time to survive and relate connections between things.
You have stunning photographs of old buildings. Any comments on the architecture of Yemen?
The people of Yemen have probably been the best builders in the world – NB builders but not the best architects (see Pevsner for the difference!).
What advice would you impart to would be travellers to Yemen?
Get ready to meet the most generous anarchists in the world! Read the Yemen Times – an English newspaper there while traveling. Take photos or postcards of your home and some of family or friends. Take pencils or pens to hand out even boiled sweets rather than give money. Also if you play a woodwind or similar instrument that can be packed in your luggage – they will love to hear you.
Gallery Talk
‘Yemen – From Aden’s Steamerpoint to Cardiff’s Tiger Bay’
Wednesday 23 March 2011
1.15 p.m.
Having photographed and written about the Middle East for over twenty-five years, Patricia Aithie shares her extensive experiences through the Lens of her camera.