Vanessa Vettorello

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Young Oman

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Location: Turin

Nationality: Italian

Biography: Vanessa Vettorello is an Italian professional photographer born in 1985. She is currently based in Turin, where she works for editorial projects and collaborates with the agency Parallelozero. She studied photography at IED, graduating in 2011.... MORE

Oman, Muscat. Nadhira Alharthy,...ith her family and her brother

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Oman, Muscat. Nadhira Alharthy, aged 41, is the first Omani woman to have climbed Everest and is the director of the Citizenship Department at the Ministry of Education. The day Nadhira scaled Everest was her 40th birthday: she had wanted to do something different as a gift to herself. It was very hard, she stayed in the mountains for 2 months to get used to the lack of oxygen. It was cold, everything was different, she was not a professional climber: she just had a dream. In Oman, she would climb everything, from canyons to mountains. For two years, she would wake up very early at weekends to go climbing without telling her parents. They didn’t understand at first, they asked “why do you need to do this? Why are you so different from the other girls?” Nadhira is divorced and lives with her family and her brother

1000 Nights Camp in the desert

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1000 Nights Camp in the desert

Oman, Bidiya. Training evaluato...uo;s doing a PhD in Management

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Oman, Bidiya. Training evaluator at the Ministry of Education. He was born in 1981, he has a family with 5 little children and currently he’s doing a PhD in Management

Old historical mosque in Bidiya

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Old historical mosque in Bidiya

Oman, Muscat. Pupils of a girl school in their uniform

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Oman, Muscat. Pupils of a girl school in their uniform

Oman, Muscat, Gutech University...f spaghetti has just collapsed

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Oman, Muscat, Gutech University. A workshop on Infrastructure Engineering. Students laugh during a team building activity related to environmental engineering: a model bridge made of spaghetti has just collapsed

Oman, Muscat, Gutech University...80% of the students are female

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Oman, Muscat, Gutech University. Miriam (22) and Majida (22) are students in their final year of the degree course in International Business and Services Management. 80% of the students are female

Oman, Muscat. A boy posed in front of his new car

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Oman, Muscat. A boy posed in front of his new car

Oman, Muscat, Fishmarket and a ...a, 31, and Balaes Mohammed, 25

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Oman, Muscat, Fishmarket and a view of Muscat. Health Inspectors Haitham, 36, Zakareya, 31, and Balaes Mohammed, 25

Oman, Jalan Bani Buhassan. Sult...y weeks, I am happy”

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Oman, Jalan Bani Buhassan. Sultan, aged 28, works for the Ministry of Defence and is also a greyhound trainer. His family has a long tradition of working with animals. They breed greyhounds and camels and all the family members help out even if they have other professions. Keeping these traditions alive is very important for the men of the family. “Tonight it will rain after many weeks, I am happy”

Oman, Muscat Girls on the prome...e Higher College of Technology

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Oman, Muscat Girls on the promenade in the evening Hadil (20) , Ghadeer (18) and Basma (19) Students at the Higher College of Technology

Oman, Muscat. Family pic-nic on the promenade, in the evening

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Oman, Muscat. Family pic-nic on the promenade, in the evening

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Young Oman

Copyright Vanessa Vettorello 2024

Updated Mar 2022

Topics Documentary, Middle east, Oman, Young, Youth

On 10 January 2020 Qaboos bin Said Al Said died in Oman. Qaboos is recognised as the enlightened Sultan who, exactly fifty years ago, began the country’s journey towards modernisation, rapidly transforming it into a developed, geopolitically neutral nation that is open to the West. And this year, in 2020, the country will commemorate this fiftieth anniversary. In 1970 Qaboos bin Said Al Said overthrew his father and began a process of reforming Oman through substantial investments in healthcare and education. One of the key results of this development can be seen today in the demographic data: 65% of Omanis are younger than 25 years of age. But what are their lives like? What do they think? What are their dreams? This portrait of the nation is the work of four young photographers who explored the country, following different itineraries with a view to telling the story of a nation balanced between the past and the future. They did so through the stories and experiences of the new generation, the engine of this change: from the creative and digitalised youth of Muscat to the youngsters of the rural areas involved in family businesses, from successful athletes to professionals in the tourism sector. All of them have a forward-lookingoutlook, as well as great respect for the traditions of their country. A project in collaboration with Parallezero, AIGO and the Oman Ministry of Tourism.

https://parallelozero.com/young-loman-di-domani

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