Saeed Khalifa

Saeed Khalifa (born 1989) is a self taught visual artist who lives and works in Dubai. He mainly works with digital photography, but lately he is approaching other mediums such as installation, video and hand crafted works. He also works as fashion photographer, a job that clearly influentiates his practice.
Khalifa is attracted to the unusual and the little things that people usually do not notice. He incorporates a lot of illustration background in his photographies, painting over his images digitally to bend their reality: his intense-labour digital practice is comparable to the strokes of the painter. The artist is interested in body language, which is overlooked in modern society as a form of communication method. He usually works with the body of the human being as a canvas and tends to keep the subject of the image honest but the surroundings bent or broken, creating a personal and twisted wonderland for the viewer to be transported to a parallel universe. He also features animals in his works to signify a certain truth humans don’t want to face: their emotions lead them to honest and true actions as opposed to the human being, who is dominated by political, social codes, moral values ​​and concepts created by man.