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The Retreat Palm Dubai hosted an exclusive private event for two friends and authors, Abhi Indrarajan and Naseema Taleb, who collaborated and launched their respective books combined with a photo exhibition.
The bustling art and creative hub that Dubai is fast becoming, played a big role in bringing these two friends together, both with common roots in South Africa, who met and connected with each other during a wellness event held in 2020 in Dubai during the pandemic. They came together again to launch their books which are connected with a theme – Mindfulness through their own viewpoints.
A Landscape of Memories, a coffee table photobook, by Abhi Indrarajan is showcasing his captures of landscapes throughout his travels around the world. Every landscape has a special memory associated for the author. The interesting angle to it is the fact that each picture has quotes by his friends and family reflecting upon the pictures, lending them a deeper and different, mindful perspective.
Living Awake, by Naseema Taleb, is a collection of essays which describe her own journey of transformation and growth arising out of mindful reflections of self-experiences and self-awareness paving a path for its readers to their own self-discovery.
The photo exhibition was a wonderful opportunity to glimpse the beauty of the global landscapes captured by Indrarajan in his book, carefully curated and presented artistically.
Abhi Indrarajan, one of Kwa-Zulu Natal’s most well-known photographers, originally from Sri Lanka, spent his growing up years in South Africa which is beautifully represented in his book. He is a visual artist inspired by nature and captures the essence of memories and feelings in his landscape shots.
Naseema Taleb, a life and transformation coach who also spent her student life in Durban, hails from Mauritius. Her book Living Awake, uses a technique called intuitive journaling, a form of therapeutic writing which requires courage and deep observation leading to inner healing and developing clarity of thoughts.
Both the authors have co-facilitated several workshops in Dubai together on mindful photography and intuitive journaling and it was the next logical step for them to collaborate and launch their books together.