In conjunction with the Abendschule Import programme, the artist Sana al Mor was exhibiting a selection of her works from 27th May until 2nd June in an exhibition space in Cabaret Voltaire. Her photo series Shades (2016), Hypothesis – People’s Shadows (2018), Zurich City Streets (2018) and her video piece My homeland did not devour me (2016) were on show. Sana al Mor said of her photo series Shades: “While I was waiting for the decision for my asylum case, I was walking around this beautiful city, which had been converted into an open air prison for more than two years, yet I was trying to cope with Zurich, with its regulations and sometimes with its monotony and conservative modernity, so I started to document my relationship with Zurich through photography, or perhaps I had documented, unintentionally, my mood that I was throwing in the streets of this city.”

Sana al Mor is a Lebanese photographer and filmmaker. She graduated from Beirut Arab University in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in Arabic Language and Literature. She joined the Al-Jazeera Training and Development Center and completed a training course in television journalism and as a press reporter. Later she took professional photography and Photoshop classes at the New York Institute of Photography. As a director, she completed her first short documentary “A Tawakul” in 2013 in Istanbul, the same year the film was officially chosen at the Renaissance Film Festival in London. She also exhibited two sets of artistic photographs by participating in three exhibitions between Zurich and Basel in Switzerland. She is in the final stages of her second documentary “On the Edge of Waiting”.

©Sana al Mor