Madeline Yale

Madeline Yale is a photography specialist based in Dubai and London. She has curated over 30 exhibitions on photography and related media in the UAE, UK, and USA since 2001. Previously she served as executive director and later adjunct curator (2006-10) for the Houston Center for Photography, an organization for which she now serves on the advisory board. She is a regular contributor and editorial board member for spot magazine and writes on photography and contemporary art for Contemporary Practices, Art Dubai Journal, and Benefactor. She also serves as a photography consultant to auction houses in Dubai and London, a curatorial advisor to XVA Gallery in Dubai, and is a visiting lecturer for MA Photography at Sotheby???s Institute of Art London (2008-present). Madeline holds an MA in Photographic Studies and is a PhD candidate at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London. She is a member of Chelsea???s Research Centre TrAIN (Transnational Art, Identity and Nation) where she is conducting doctoral research on Metamorphic, emerging photographic art histories in the Middle East.

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Halim AlKarim: Photographic Abstraction and the Lag Effects of Conflict in Iraq
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Interview with Walid Siti, January 2011 in his studio in Hackney, London
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Meera Huraiz: Heritage in Metamorphosis
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Sami Alkarim: Subversive Practices
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