during 2009—10 olivia arthur spent tame and saudi arabia photographing scenes of parties and teachers dodgers police. —— religious police. they have this very strong conservative islamic influence as well as what has come with oil money. originally i went to saudi arabia to teach a workshop for young women who invited me to their houses to meet the families. i said can i make a picture of you and your home, something you are comfortable with. some were totally covered and some we re some were totally covered and some were ok to photograph and i didn't show theirfaces. i show their faces. i started making friends and hung out with a man—made other girls was not a state and a hostel, a whole apartment block for women who study or work in the city but his family are not there. we hung out together, i should them my work and they said would love to be in your pictures. it must have been won in the morning and the old put their niqab on and made a pretence tea party. i hadn't asked him to do that but it was fun, they started playing around and a girl has a black goldfish and says my goldfi

olivia arthur, his friendships with young saudi women granted her access to private spaces where camerasrdan and raised between that and texas. her images offer a nuanced look at those living in the occupied territories, finding a unique entry point into one of the most polarised places on the planet. don't replicate exactly what is happening in the news. find your way in that no—one else can tell. and go deeper. iam no—one else can tell. and go deeper. i am working on a place that is one of the most hyper narrated places on earth. you look at the coverage there versus anywhere else, the coverage is vast. but i am buoyed by the —— board by the majority of it and it doesn't represent the place but i know. and so i try to find the internet. i try to find a unique entry point into any story, and i a lwa ys entry point into any story, and i always try to go under, over, side door, around the corner. because i am not interested in reproducing what has already been done and said, because what is the point? it needs to be something that has more than one dimension. if i made a palestinian, i ha