@everydaymiddleeast is excited to begin a new feature on

@everydaymiddleeast is excited to begin a new feature on our feed - #MENAstories are photo essays and series shared by guest contributors from around the region once per day for a week.
This week we're sharing portraits from @gulfphotoplus's current exhibition Constructing Portraits.
The Gulf Photo Plus team with the help of volunteers took studio portraits of over 250 workers at their camp over the Eid weekend and provided them with professional prints. They also asked them several questions related to their hopes and aspirations; answers were then paired with their portraits and exhibited at the GPP gallery in Dubai.
The idea is to move beyond the boundaries of nationality, language and job title in order to unite the diverse and often divided communities that call Dubai home, to strip away assumed differences, and to recognize our similarities.
Pictured above is Nino Plata, 34, a steel erector from the Philippines. His hero, he said, is “God, for showing me the right path in life.” The exhibition featuring all 250 portraits is showing at the GPP gallery in Dubai until Sep 5th.

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