XPOSURE Sharjah Photography Festival 2026

Official Selection — Cinema Screening

A short film by Virginie Ellis

Directed and edited by Osama Elolemy

My photographs of the desert of the Emirates are the trace of what I have lived, a devotion of time, effort and passion.  This series is a visual poem where light becomes a language and the wind writes its calligraphy across shifting forms. In this vastness, I search for what cannot be held, silence, presence, and the intimate strength of the dunes. As a poet once whispered:

 “ The desert is not an emptiness, but a page on which every breath of wind inscribes a tale, and every thread of light becomes a poem told to those who know how to listen, in the silence of beginnings.

I invite you Watch the film

“The Desert Found Me”