In these one-of-a-kind photographs, people take on their animal avatars. Which are you? Animals blur the line between our digital identities and human selves. They let us slide into a fantastical and surreal world where identities shift and we become characters of our imagination.
This series captures people wearing their bespoke animal masks to become exquisite digital beings. Shot sometimes on film, sometimes on digital, each photograph evokes a fairytale world where lost creatures wander among the woods searching, roasting marshmallows around a fire, and contemplating their existence.
With every photograph, a unique soundtrack will be unlocked and can be enjoyed both with the image and independently. This is the first of many collaborations between sister-and-brother duo, Rania and Rashid Ajami who always focus on storytelling as the core to their audio and visual explorations.
About The Artists:
Rania Ajami is an award-winning filmmaker and a pioneer in family entertainment. Her Pip's Island, which opened in Times Square, was a huge, immersive, and interactive experience that won the OBE for best family show in 2019 and was heralded as the “future of entertainment.” With Rania as the chief creative officer, Pip's Island became one of the most critically acclaimed experiential projects for kids. Prior to Pip's Island Rania began her career as a filmmaker, directing Shadows of a Leader, about Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi’s elite female bodyguards, which attracted wide and international acclaim. Her second film Asylum Seekers was a visually-arresting narrative dark comedy about six people competing for one remaining bed in a mental home as they seek to escape the madness of the world. Rania’s film, art, and experiential projects have been featured in The New York Times, CNN and Variety, among others. Rania is a graduate of Princeton and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Rashid Ajami is an electronic music producer and sound design artist based in London. He has released on renowned labels such as Anjunadeep, Get Physical, Noir, Tale + Tone, TOR, and Armada Electronic Elements. He’s collaborated with electronic music heavyweights Booka Shade and Julia Govor, been remixed by the likes of Maya Jane Coles and Ramon Tapia, supported by Pete Tong on BBC Radio 1, as well as featuring in some of the world’s biggest music titles such as Rolling Stone, Mixmag, DJ Mag and Clash. Ajami has performed at the likes of Mysteryland and New York’s Marquee.
