Julien Rahmani is a photographer born in Essen, Germany, and Based between Paris and Riyadh. Focused on making digital artwork, posters, album covers, motion graphics, renders and other cool stuff. For further informations, commissions or collaborative inquieries please get in touch. WORKS Rahmani.julien@gmail.com Instagram
Every Friday, hundreds of men meet at 7 am at the empty storage area in the south of Riyadh
to play cricket until the sun’s get too hot.
Originating from the Victorian elite and English colonization, the discipline of Cricket is nowadays practiced internationally in most commonwealth countries to the point of being reappropriated and then exported, as it is the case in Saudi Arabia and many other Gulf countries where workers from South Asia are numerous.
Brotherhood and resourcefulness are the rules of this sport,
reinvented on playgrounds which seem far from its origins. This street cricket discipline often
called “Softball” is a relaxed-rules version. It is usually played on wastelands, empty roads or
parking lots, using tennis balls wrapped in red electrical tape and homemade stumps.
I fundamentally believe that each country sees its culture evolve through the influence of other
cultures which are born or brought by immigrant populations.
The Saudi youth has already proven that they are capable and willing to build their own creative industries through their initiatives. I consider this is the right time to focus on the less
considered part of the society in Saudi Arabia : the foreign workers, the ones we call Labours.
These generations of immigrants contributes to the kingdom’s quick development and establi-
shment of its new identity.
This work is imagined as a sounding board that aims to promote this discipline and its margi-
nalized community in Saudi society.
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Every Friday, hundreds of men meet at 7 am at the empty storage area in the south of Riyadh to play cricket until the sun’s get too hot.
Originating from the Victorian elite and English colonization, the discipline of Cricket is nowadays practiced internationally in most commonwealth countries to the point of being reappropriated and then exported, as it is the case in Saudi Arabia and many other Gulf countries where workers from South Asia are numerous.
Brotherhood and resourcefulness are the rules of this sport,
reinvented on playgrounds which seem far from its origins. This street cricket discipline often called “Softball” is a relaxed-rules version. It is usually played on wastelands, empty roads or parking lots, using tennis balls wrapped in red electrical tape and homemade stumps.
I fundamentally believe that each country sees its culture evolve through the influence of other cultures which are born or brought by immigrant populations.
The Saudi youth has already proven that they are capable and willing to build their own creative industries through their initiatives. I consider this is the right time to focus on the less considered part of the society in Saudi Arabia : the foreign workers, the ones we call Labours. These generations of immigrants contributes to the kingdom’s quick development and establi- shment of its new identity.
This work is imagined as a sounding board that aims to promote this discipline and its margi- nalized community in Saudi society.