This folio-size photobook of 100 female portraits looks like it might have been conceived and sponsored by the Dubai or Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce. It has about it that air of self-congratulation, presenting resident females as entrepreneurs, academics, ranking government office holders, artists, designers, radio and television personalities, film directors, and business owners. But the project was in fact produced by an Australian “fashion, beauty, advertising and luxurious lifestyle” photographer who came to the UAE in 2002 little expecting to find so many females active in capitalistic pursuits. This collection is a document of these women. It is the photographer's first book project and partial profits are being donated to breast cancer research.
