Steve Sabella first began studying at the Naggar School of Photography in Jerusalem, receiving a degree in Art Photography in 1997.
15 Facts About Steve Sabella
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Steve Sabella was released unharmed, after several hours of holding.
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In 2007, Steve Sabella established the Palestine Photo Bank, an online image archive formed with the mission of promoting and supporting a positive picture of Palestine and its people.
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Steve Sabella moved from Palestine to London in 2007, and began to focus solely on his art career.
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Steve Sabella completed an MA in Photographic Studies from the University of Westminster in 2008, and an MA in Art Business from Sotheby's Institute of Art in 2009.
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Steve Sabella has utilized large-scale photography, photographic collage, and mixed media in his visual practice.
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Rather than something that bears an indexical reference to the world, Steve Sabella sees the photographic image as containing and producing its own form of reality.
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Steve Sabella has often drawn parallels between his artwork and the field of archaeology, both in practice and theory: some of his photo-collages are partly composed by continuously removing layers of photographic visuals; other artworks have been printed on stones and paint fragments, appearing as ancient artifacts.
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Critics of Steve Sabella's work have often noted and discussed the themes of exile and the Palestinian experience.
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Steve Sabella's art is an art of understanding; it is poetic and suppresses neither expulsion nor salvation.
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From 1997 to the late 2000s, Steve Sabella exhibited his work at various venues in Palestine.
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Steve Sabella's essays on the international art market and art-world dynamics first appeared in Contemporary Practices Art Journal, for which he was a regular contributor from 2008 to 2012.
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The book details Steve Sabella's upbringing in Jerusalem under Israeli occupation, his subsequent nomadism, and the development of his art practice as a means of mental emancipation from the colonization of the imagination.
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On September 21,2017, Steve Sabella began publishing his new book project, The Artist's Curse.
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Steve Sabella has participated in film interviews for Deutsche Welle, France 24, Al Jazeera and Electronic Intifada.