I recently came back from a working trip in Al Ula, a governorate in the desert dominated by monumental sandstone formations 1,100 km from Riyadh, north-west Saudi Arabia. As a result of the Saudi cultural commission’s resolution to open up to touris...

Gaia Squarci
Gaia Squarci is a photographer, videographer and writer who divides her time between Milan and New York, where she teaches Digital Storytelling at ICP. Gaia is a contributor of Prospekt, an IWMF fellow and National Geographic grantee. Her photography has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Time Magazine, Vogue, The Guardian, Internazionale, The Washington Post, among others.