Places, events and ideas are continually reframed, redrawn and renegotiated depending on the artistic viewpoint of the photographer."Another photographer featured demonstrates a slightly different angle on the festival's theme turning the inside out; Wasma Mansour's photographs in her show Single Saudi Women encourage a dialogue about the representation of the self as a public or private figure. Global mass media have not exactly helped the stereotypes of Saudi women. In fact they seem to have suppressed their efforts in trying to reconcile their identities and assert their individualism. Mansour's work argues against this suppression, and it's her curiosity that drives her work.
"Sadly, media coverage often reduces Saudi women to a mere object of gendered political voyeurism, muting their voices and subjugating their images. The challenge is to assert the Saudi woman's humanity, aesthetically narrating the multifarious ways in which she asserts her subjectivity, creating and interacting with her world. My concern has been to represent that rich world in a plethora of settings and spaces, transmitting some of its texture and flavour."Due to the current economic climate many UK home owners are now required to work long hours to make ends meet, often making them tired and stressed at the end of each day. As we are all aware stress is a serious ailment that can progress to such standards that individuals can become extremely ill.