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WAASTAA WAASTAA brings the creative makers of the world together in an online visual directory. WAASTAA is your visual directory of the makers of the world.

Discover hand-picked creatives in cities around the world and collaborate with them in real time. WAASTAA means being connected so we created your very own visual diary, keeping you in the know for can't-miss events by creatives in your city or anywhere in the world. From illustrators to chefs and everything in between, just search and swipe through stunning portfolios, connect with the makers thr

ough chat and even find out where you can see them and their works. WAASTAA brings you into the global community of makers that inspire us all. WAASTAA allows you to:
• Search through a carefully curated collection of makers based on their profession and their location
• 'WAASTAA’ the creatives you want to follow and makers will then be WAASTAA'd by you, the people who admire their craftsmanship
• Swipe through the portfolios of makers works from around the world
• Star a makers work to add to your 'favourites’, creating your own visual directory
• Chat directly with makers just to say hello, express your appreciation or even collaborate with them on a project.
• Group chat when you really want to bring together a one-of-a-kind creation through seamless collaboration with makers from around the world
• Get notifications for WAASTAA events: pop ups, open portfolio nights, networking events, kitchen take overs by our chefs- near you
• Be notified for independent maker events from the creatives you love via our notifications plus be in the know for events happening in the city you live in, from restaurant openings to artist shows to music gigs
• Create your own WAASTAA circles through our community, join us to bring creatives and like minded people together
• Connect directly with the 'CURATORS' if you ever need any guidance, help, advice, or have suggestions of great creative events you want us to share with our global community.

Dhergam Haider photos through his elements of life inside of Iraq
23/06/2026

Dhergam Haider photos through his elements of life inside of Iraq

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘋𝘰 𝘍𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥? ماذا يترك الآباء خلفهم؟For many, the answer is found in memories. For photographer Sadiq Y...
22/06/2026

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘋𝘰 𝘍𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥?
ماذا يترك الآباء خلفهم؟

For many, the answer is found in memories. For photographer Sadiq Y. Al-Harasi (Sadiq Y. Al-harasi), the search became a photographic journey. Tracing the outline of a father known more through memory than experience.

Drawing from family archives, cyanotypes, and landscapes marked by longing, he reflects on grief, inheritance, and the ways someone can continue to shape a life after they’re gone. Each image becomes part of an ongoing search for a man whose absence has never stopped being felt.

After losing his father at the age of eleven, Sadiq spent years trying to reconstruct the man he barely had the chance to know. With only a handful of family photographs, fragments of documents, and the stories carried by his mother, he began piecing together an archive of absence that explores not only who his father was, but how loss continues to shape identity long after someone is gone.

What Do Fathers Leave Behind? unfolds across two intertwined chapters. Archive is built from photographs and personal documents left behind by his father. Memory brings together landscapes, family histories, songs, and portraits that become vessels for remembrance. Together, they ask how we continue to know someone through what remains, and how grief quietly transforms into inheritance.

Rather than documenting a person, Sadiq photographs the spaces between memory and reality, revealing that fathers leave behind more than photographs or possessions. They leave gestures, stories, familiar faces reflected in their children, and lives that continue to echo across generations.

This Father’s Day, we reflect on the people who continue to shape us through the memories, stories, and traces they leave behind.

Works by Ryan Ashcroft “I took these photos whilst solo cycling and camping through Morocco. Starting off in Marrakesh, ...
18/06/2026

Works by Ryan Ashcroft

“I took these photos whilst solo cycling and camping through Morocco. Starting off in Marrakesh, I then biked across different terrain; moving through deserts and villages until I reached the Atlas Mountains. Great country 🇲🇦.”

Works by mashael ‘Tenderness in many forms.’
17/06/2026

Works by mashael

‘Tenderness in many forms.’

Collection of Dr Katya Abedian-Rawháni ‘s 35mm film photography
16/06/2026

Collection of Dr Katya Abedian-Rawháni ‘s 35mm film photography

Works by MENA Panorama: A PhotoVogue Open Call for Middle East, North Africa & Their Diasporas‘At PhotoVogue , we belie...
15/06/2026

Works by
MENA Panorama: A PhotoVogue Open Call for Middle East, North Africa & Their Diasporas
‘At PhotoVogue , we believe representation matters. Images do more than reflect reality, they shape how we see the world and one another.’

MENA Panorama is PhotoVogue’s regional initiative to champion the plurality of voices from MENA. An invitation to move beyond monolithic narratives and showcase the region’s complexity, resilience, and diverse visual languages, on your own terms.

Submit your work on Picter by September 24th 2026

The Ancient Land - Directed by S.Moh‘d Almosawi 🎬 & Director of Photography Yousif‘At a time when the Gulf is moving fas...
14/06/2026

The Ancient Land - Directed by S.Moh‘d Almosawi 🎬 & Director of Photography Yousif

‘At a time when the Gulf is moving faster than ever, The Ancient Land is a quiet pause- a visual poem from Bahrain asking a simple question: what do we lose when we forget where we come from? A celebration of Arab identity, collective memory, and the beauty of a region that deserves to be seen and heard.’

Director: S.Moh‘d Almosawi 🎬
Director of Photography: Yousif
Writer: عمار

Iraqi Marshes Series by Dominika Silvia
13/06/2026

Iraqi Marshes Series by Dominika Silvia

‘A Way of Return’ a decade of work skye jones ‘Desert landscapes. The men who inhabit them. From the American Southwest ...
12/06/2026

‘A Way of Return’ a decade of work skye jones

‘Desert landscapes. The men who inhabit them. From the American Southwest to Bedouin roots in Saudi Arabia. doesn’t approach the desert as a singular place, she traces what binds them: grit, movement, labor, endurance. Arizona ranches. Bahraini cowboys. Communities stretched across the Middle East and the Americas. Horses move through it all, companions and symbols, carrying tradition, freedom, and the pull toward origin. No matter how far they travel, they always remember the path home.

Each image is hand-printed in the darkroom, the color heightened until the light, soil, and sky of distant worlds begin to echo one another.

For , this series is the return itself.’

Some stories don’t need to be invented. They just need someone willing to listen. The alleyways already had their own be...
09/06/2026

Some stories don’t need to be invented. They just need someone willing to listen. The alleyways already had their own beat, the corners their own characters, the noise its own logic. didn’t bring the narrative, he simply just followed it. Frame by frame, turning what Cairo had always been saying. That’s the thing about Mahraganat. It was never waiting for permission. Born in the streets, it’s a genre that wrote itself, loud, alive, chaotic, answering to nobody.

Director / Storyteller has this rare instinct for finding the fiction that lives inside the real. Directing DJ Snake’s Cairo Express doesn’t arrive like an outsider looking in. It moves through the city the way a good story does

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