Fine art print sale in support of Palestinian artists — presented by Gulf Photo Plus & Magnum Photos

If our primary goal was to ensure the delivery of basic necessities, which are in urgent need, a print sale would not be an efficient way to go about this. But this is not a charity drive for humanitarian relief — this is an artwork sale.

Within the regional visual community, we have an unfortunately ever-dwindling resource of image-makers forging narratives from within the actively besieged areas of Palestine. Our focus is to directly support our colleagues currently working under unimaginable conditions, bearing witness to unspeakable atrocities with their cameras.

With the blessing of the Palestinian contributors in this collection, we hope to ease the burden carried by these artists, and propel their work as wide, and as far, as we can.

Our friends and colleagues, some of the members of renowned photo agency Magnum Photos, reached out to us to see how they could support and we worked to launch this print sale that would include prints by Magnum photographers alongside their Palestinian counterparts, to help expand the reach of the print sale.

To be clear, they will not be receiving any funds from the sales. They have also published a piece on the Magnum website with a Q&A with Gaza photographers and some of their members that you can read here.

The profits of each print sold will be tallied up, and divided equally amongst the Palestinian artists featured in this sale. If you're based outside of the UAE, AED472.00 will be forwarded. If you're based in the UAE, AED447.00 will be forwarded, after VAT.

Prints are available for AED495.00 ($134.77). Here are the costs:

• Printing and packaging: AED23.00 / $6.26
• 5% VAT: AED25.00 / $6.81 (not applicable on orders shipped outside of the UAE)
• Shipping: paid additionally by you, the buyer, and goes directly to the shipping company — no profits are generated from this.
• Transfer fees: this cost depends on the recipients choice of transfer method, but this will be covered by the facilitating parties, and will not impact the final profit value

Gulf Photo Plus has been selling artwork by regional photographers since 2013, sharing profits equally. For this sale, all profits will be distributed equally to the Palestinian image-makers featured in this sale — how they use these funds is then wholly at their discretion.