In this interview with *Emaho*, Emily Garthwaite reflects on years of photographing Iraq through a deeply human lens, documenting life along the Tigris River, rituals, resilience, and environmental change. Challenging conflict-driven narratives, she reveals a country shaped as much by memory, beauty, and everyday life as by crisis.
Czech Chinese photographer and writer Linda Zhengová moves between memory, trauma, eroticism and human connection with startling emotional honesty. In this intimate conversation with Emaho Magazine, she reflects on cross cultural identity, intimacy, photography, censorship, happiness, and the politics of truly being seen.
Ismail Zaidy is a self‑taught Moroccan photographer who turned the rooftop of his family home in Marrakech into Studio Sa3ada, a “Studio of Happiness” and his primary creative sanctuary. In this Emaho interview, he speaks about capturing memory, family, and everyday poetry from above, tracing his journey from mobile‑phone experiments on the rooftop to international recognition in contemporary art and fashion.
In his interview with Emaho, Pierre Terdjman traces a trajectory from frontline photojournalism to redefining how images live in public space. From conflict zones to the streets through Dysturb, his work challenges visibility, memory, and authorship—transforming photography into a civic act that resists erasure and reclaims attention.
Baghdad photographer Aymen Al-Ameri reframes post-conflict resilience in his Emaho interview. Through poignant portraits and urban aftermaths, he captures Iraqi cultural memory and daily endurance—from endangered marshes to Baghdad streets—transcending war narratives for intimate human stories.
In this Emaho Magazine interview, Colombian-French photographer Karen Paulina Biswell reflects on 14 years collaborating with Emberá-Chamí artist Maria Amilbia Siagama. Rejecting extractive gazes, she explores shared authorship, photographic negatives in “Adua,” Glissant’s opacity, and decolonial rituals—questioning identity, legibility, and trust across Paris and Bogotá.
