Brigitte Lacombe: Hey’Ya
Striking portraits of Arab women in sports were captured by photographer Brigitte Lacombe. Qatari swimmers, Omani tennis players, Saudi Arabian basketball players, Lebanese fencers, and Moroccan runners, are some of those inspirational women whom Brigitte Lacombe was able to capture when herself and her sister, the documentary filmmaker Marian Lacombe, were commissioned by the Qatar Museums Authority to document the pre-Olympic Arab Games in Doha last December.
Brigitte and Marian Lacombe traveling across the Arab world to document these athletes. “The young girls and women athletes we met were spirited and full of joy,” Brigitte says. “For them to arrive at this level of excellence requires extreme determination to overcome resistance––not only cultural, but economic and political.”
Hey’Ya: Arab Women in Sport (meaning “let's go" in Arabic) opens at London's Sotheby’s on the 25th of July. The photographs are accompanied by a video essay from Marian, and a coffee-table book published by the Qatar Museum Authority.
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(German-Algerian Runner - Amina Ferguen)
(Moroccan Runner - Hasna Benhassi)
(Captain of the Somali women's basketball team - Miriam Hussein)
(Egypt's women's volleyball team - Ranked 26th in the world)
(Saudi Arabia's Jeddah Green Basketball Team - Jeddah United)
(Algerian judo champion Soraya Haddad won bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics)
(At last year's Arab Games, Amira Mansour dominated in archery, winning Egypt three of its six gold medals for the sport)
(above pictures - Qatari Swimmer Nada Arakji)
Brigitte and Marian Lacombe traveling across the Arab world to document these athletes. “The young girls and women athletes we met were spirited and full of joy,” Brigitte says. “For them to arrive at this level of excellence requires extreme determination to overcome resistance––not only cultural, but economic and political.”
(Saudi Equestrian Dalma Malhas)
(Palestinian swimmer Dima Awad)
Hey’Ya: Arab Women in Sport (meaning “let's go" in Arabic) opens at London's Sotheby’s on the 25th of July. The photographs are accompanied by a video essay from Marian, and a coffee-table book published by the Qatar Museum Authority.
(Lebanese Fencer - Mona Shaito)
(24-year old Moroccan Runner - Hayat Lambarki)
(Qatari Runner - Noor Al-Malki)
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(Omani Tennis Player - Fatma al Nabhani)
(Libyan Thrower - Retag Asaiah)
(23-year old Tunisian Fencer - Sarra Besbes)
(25-year old Comoros Runner - Feta Ahamada)
(Lebanon's Basketball Team)
(At the 2010 Asian Games in Guangdong, China, Deena Mahboob represented Bahrain in the women's Tae Kwon Do tournament)
Hey’Ya: Arab Women in Sport by Brigitte Lacombe & Marian Lacombe
Sotheby's London: July 25 -August 11
Traveling to Doha, Qatar in Spring 2013
I like the girls of the egyptian volleyball team!
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