Farah Al Qasimi "Woman in Leopard Print" (2019)

The woman faces away from the camera. She has light olive skin, brown eyes, and dark eyebrows. Her head and torso fill the frame, with her left shoulder twisted slightly so it is positioned at the center of the photograph. Her face, however, turns away, so only the silhouetted edge of her left cheek and chin are visible. The fingers of her left hand are lightly grasping or are tucked into the edge of her scarf below her chin. She looks into the mirror of an open makeup compact held in the fingers of her right hand. It contains a small square of salmon-colored makeup below a square mirror. The mirror she looks into is angled so she looks out of the corner of her eye, gazing toward us. Her gaze captures the viewer’s attention despite the busy patterns and colors throughout the photograph.
Farah Al Qasimi "Woman in Leopard Print" (2019) is on view in "Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility."
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