Ekta Saran abandoned agency life to roam the streets of Bur Dubai armed only with her camera. She tells Eleanor Dickinson why
The filmmaker Ekta Saran is sipping ginger tea and reminiscing about a time when the World Trade Centre was the tallest city in Dubai. “My father used to say to me as we drove past it, ‘Ok now you have to count all the floors before we pass by’ and I could only ever get to 23 or 24.” She smiles as she looks
at our surroundings: “Now there are tall, tall buildings everywhere.”
Nearly two decades later, we are sat in Café M engulfed by the neck-aching heights of Dubai Marina’s skyscraper skyline. As a former copywriter for Lowe, Saran is in familia
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