Emy Kat
Emy Kat is a researcher, visual artist and photographer working in contemporary art and fine art photography Career and life. Emy Kat was born in 1959, of a Middle Eastern descent. He is contemporary photographer whose large body of work has been built over several decades. Developing a love for the medium at an early age, he started photography when his father gave him his first camera at age 12. He went on to refine his craft in USA and received a graduate degree in 1997 from the Brooks Institute of photography in Santa Barbara, California, (USA) with  exceptional academic achievements and honors along with awards in Advertising and Creative Excellence. Kat began his career in fashion photography, portraits, commercial advertising and has shifted in 2009 to Contemporary Art and Fine-art photography. A Researcher and a photographer, Kat is best known for his explorations of culture and heritage as well as landscape and spiritual transformations. In 2013, the artist has introduced a new technique in contemporary Art classified as a Post medium condition, It is a type of "digital Collage" Kat calls it "Mental Spaces", The art work deals with capturing a given space and connects several  images taken from various angles to create one image, offering the viewer a chance to experience a given space from multiple angles in one gaze. "This technique allows me to cover several dimensions of a space and to effectively sum up all the facts into a single visual. A sample of "Mental Spaces" by Emy Kat titled "Indoors" 2013 His work is included in a number of prominent private and public collections. His iconographic studies on the subject "Femme" describing her superiorities (Nude studies on Platinum) is a Permanent collection at BNF Bibliothèque nationale de France . The collection is  under Reference number Ep-4001-Boîte pet. fol.(Collection Publiques). His work from the project "The Everlasting Now" has been acquired by the British Museum . The artist has participated in a number of local and international shows including Jeddah Arts 21,39 inaugural exhibition Moallaqat , Art Dubai  and Paris Photo . The artist has lived and worked in Los Angeles, New York, London, Dubai and is currently based in Paris where his studio is located. Film vs digital. Although the artist majored in digital imaging, Emy Kat chose to work and mostly use photographic film. This is due to limitations  in digital photography. In 2008, he started using a high end digital camera back system by LEAF. However, most of his fine art work, Kat continues to use photographic film with large format view camera and medium format camera. Book contributions. Kat's photographs have been included in several books published by Graphis Inc.