{"id":2347,"date":"2018-04-15T12:54:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T10:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/didouqen.com\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2018-04-15T12:54:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T10:54:06","slug":"october-15th-event-featured-artist-alan-keohane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-haf.ddev.site\/october-15th-event-featured-artist-alan-keohane\/","title":{"rendered":"October 15th Event Featured Artist: Alan Keohane"},"content":{"rendered":"
To give you a taste of HAF’s upcoming\u00a0October 15th NYC art exhibit, sale, and silent auction<\/a>,\u00a0 we will profile each week one of the four\u00a0talented featured artists. We hope you will\u00a0join us<\/a>\u00a0on the 15th\u00a0to view their work and make a purchase if something special\u00a0catches your eye!\u00a0All proceeds to benefit HAF’s community development projects with Moroccan communities.<\/em><\/p>\n The exhibit will feature\u00a0five framed photographs from Alan Keohane’s Moroccan Fantasia series,The<\/em>\u00a0Horsemen of Islam.<\/em><\/p>\n The Doukkala Arabs live on the plains between Marrakech and the Atlantic coast and are the direct descendents of the Bedouin armies that brought Islam to North Africa in the 7th<\/sup>\u00a0and 8th<\/sup>\u00a0centuries.\u00a0 They are fiercely proud of their lineage and the historic role played by their forefathers.\u00a0 These Arab tribes still breed and ride the Arab-Berber horses that made them among the finest light cavalry in the world.\u00a0 The Doukkala Arabs commemorate today their warrior origins in the dramatic Fantasia displays of horsemanship, courage, and teamwork.<\/p>\n Alan first came to photography as a fine art printing student, making etchings and woodcuts.\u00a0 He strongly believes that the printing stage of photography is as important as the initial taking of the photo; the one unable to exist without the other.\u00a0 In 2003 he started experimenting with the new ink based photographic printing techniques.<\/p>\n Since 1993 he has been based in Marrakesh, Morocco where he works as a photographer and documentary film consultant through his company\u00a0Still Images<\/a>. Alan is the author of the photographic books\u00a0The Berbers of Morocco<\/em>\u00a0(Hamish Hamilton 1991) and\u00a0Bedouin Nomads of the Desert<\/em>\u00a0(Kyle Cathie 1994).\u00a0 He has also contributed photographs to a substantial number of other books and international magazines, and has exhibited his photographs in Europe, Morocco, and Dubai.\u00a0 Alan graduated with a first class honors degree from the University College of Wales in 1985, before going on to study photography at the Central St Martins School of Art in London.<\/p>\n Photographs are printed on 13 X 19 inch Hahnamehule acid free cotton rag, using pure carbon based pigment inks.\u00a0 Prints are signed and\u00a0in limited editions of 25.\u00a0 The prints are mounted on ivory colored acid free board and are framed. Commercial value of each print is $565.<\/em><\/p>\n