Art Dubai online photography auction: countdown is running!

To commemorate the Art Dubai 2010 we’ve initiated on Facebook an online auction of this fine-art photo-print (currently displayed at the Tashkeel Gallery Dubai): it shows principal Bolshoi ballerina Svetlana Lunkina minutes before taking stage – in the Swan Lake role of Princess Odette – at the Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi.

The photography is 75×50 cm and part of a limited 10-prints-edition. You can either befriend me on FB and leave a bid there or drop your bid by mail to photodubai@martinvondendriesch.com. Currently, the highest bid is 550 AED (150 USD). 600 AED (165 USD) anyone? That’s 50% off the asking price at the gallery! Auction closes on Sunday, March 21, at midnight Dubai time.

Crisis? What crisis? Art Dubai opens its doors

Art Dubai: the art of partying - Images by Martin von den Driesch


Despite the worldwide economic turmoil of the past months, the Art Dubai 2010 - running from March 17 to 20 - has a bigger manifesto than ever. Expect a mix of Arab and western art buyers at the most important art fair in the Middle East ... and many after-parties!

GPP 2010 workshop movie: red Lamborghini, stunning DIFC architecture, wide desert

GPP 2010 Student Workshop Video from Vincent Laforet on Vimeo.

Vincent Laforet has posted our group effort on Vimeo, please check it out. Amazing what you can produce with the new bunch of DSRL cameras like Canon's EOS 5 Mark II. Our class was a quite international mix - with students coming to Dubai for GPP from as far as Thailand and Nigeria. Think we all agree that it was worth every buck.