Aisha

Aisha
Aisha
Aisha
Aisha
Aisha
Aisha

Aisha

Aisha is the debut artist’s book by Yemeni Egyptian American photographer and filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi, honoring the lineage of women from the MENA region. Inspired by her great-grandmother’s tattoos, Al-Arashi embarks on a journey through North Africa, photographing women of the same generation in a powerful celebration of matriarchal traditions. Presented as a 392-page monograph, the book includes every image from her journey, creating an ethereal, cinematic tribute. Aisha weaves together striking photography, personal reflections, and poetry, exploring themes of memory, intergenerational storytelling, colonial archives, and transnational female identity.

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Aisha is Yemeni Egyptian American photographer and filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi’s first artist’s book. This powerful, delicate publication, inspired by Al-Arashi’s great-grandmother, Aisha, is an homage to the lineage of women that she descends from; women of the multidimensional and many-layered landscapes of the MENA region. Searching for an understanding of the tattoos that graced her great-grandmother’s body, Al-Arashi embraces the complexities of a symbolic matriarchal tradition. Unable to visit one of her places of origin, the war-stricken Yemen, Yumna traveled through Northern Africa meeting and photographing a diverse group of women belonging more or less to the same generation: all standing, sitting, looking, moving and laughing with assuredness and joy. By refusing the violence of selection and definition surrounding women’s practices, Al-Arashi publishes every single photograph from her journey in this 392 page monograph, moving the work into an ethereal cinematic celebration.

Al-Arashi’s images are gentle yet strong in composition, conscientiously connecting the woman to the land surrounding her and vice versa; they are incredibly rich in detail and color; and they are intimate, beautifully defiant and full of community and alliance. Aisha also includes Al-Arashi’s writing and poetry in which she reflects on memories of her great-grandmother and the scent of oudh “that left a trail of magic wherever she floated in that home.” In her genre-stretching texts, Al-Arashi also speaks on colonial archives, intergenerational storytelling and on the complexities of transnational female identity in patriarchal, capitalist, and imperialist societies at-large.

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