The Earth Would Die If The Sun Stopped Kissing Her (2022)
My contribution to The World Today 10k project, The Earth Would Die If The Sun Stopped Kissing Her, is an intimate exploration of wha it means to be human, caught between the magic of daylight and the quiet o the night. It’s a collection of moments where our everyday lives and dream meet, reminding us that we are part of something much bigger, something beautifully complex.
As I wandered through Oman, I found myself moving between two worlds - the brightness of the sun and the mystery of the moon. Each day, I saw how life unfolded in these small, ordinary moments: the way the light touched a face the silence of a familiar place, the way nature spoke softly when no one was listening. It felt like uncovering hidden stories that were always there, waiting to be seen.
This project is about those fleeting moments that make us feel alive, moment that feel like they belong to another realm yet are rooted deeply in our own. The images move between the brightness of a sunlit day and the cool quiet of moonlit night, echoing our own inner worlds of hope and longing. It’s abou finding magic in the mundane and seeing beauty in the simplest things.
Through these images, I’ve tried to capture the people and places that have shaped my journey. Mostly photographed in Oman, with a few intimate portraits of friends from Bahrain and the UAE, they reflect our universal search for connection - whether it’s with the land beneath our feet, the people around us or something beyond what we can see. This work is my way of honoring the land that cradles me, the dreams that pull me forward, and the balance between light and shadow that we all navigate in this mysterious, ever- changing world.
My contribution to The World Today 10k project, The Earth Would Die If The Sun Stopped Kissing Her, is an intimate exploration of wha it means to be human, caught between the magic of daylight and the quiet o the night. It’s a collection of moments where our everyday lives and dream meet, reminding us that we are part of something much bigger, something beautifully complex.
As I wandered through Oman, I found myself moving between two worlds - the brightness of the sun and the mystery of the moon. Each day, I saw how life unfolded in these small, ordinary moments: the way the light touched a face the silence of a familiar place, the way nature spoke softly when no one was listening. It felt like uncovering hidden stories that were always there, waiting to be seen.
This project is about those fleeting moments that make us feel alive, moment that feel like they belong to another realm yet are rooted deeply in our own. The images move between the brightness of a sunlit day and the cool quiet of moonlit night, echoing our own inner worlds of hope and longing. It’s abou finding magic in the mundane and seeing beauty in the simplest things.
Through these images, I’ve tried to capture the people and places that have shaped my journey. Mostly photographed in Oman, with a few intimate portraits of friends from Bahrain and the UAE, they reflect our universal search for connection - whether it’s with the land beneath our feet, the people around us or something beyond what we can see. This work is my way of honoring the land that cradles me, the dreams that pull me forward, and the balance between light and shadow that we all navigate in this mysterious, ever- changing world.
What is The World Today 10K+ Collection?
138 world-class, established and emerging photographers from all 5 continents, including various Magnum photographers, brought together by Obscura DAO to take the 1st global visual timestamp of the 21st century.
13,800 native 1/1 NFT photographs of cities, landscapes, communities, people, events and conceptual images that will tell our story for centuries to come, taken Mar-Apr 2022.
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