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The Wall Between Us
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Includes 27 images
Credit: Katarina Premfors via Visura
Asset ID: VA46455
Caption: Available
Copyright: © Katarina Premfors, 2025
Collection: Personal
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Topics: Black and White Children Community Documentary Dreams Dubai Emotion Family Fear Freedom Happiness Home Lockdown Loss Middle East Motherhood Pandemic Pandemics Parenting & Family Personal Photography Spotlight Youth

Katarina Premfors

Based in United Arab Emirates

I am a Dubai based photographer covering the Middle East since 1993. Born in Sweden, raised between Pakistan, Turkey and North America before starting my career in the Middle-East over thirty years ago, I hope my deep insights into the...
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Zayed and Astrid playing basketball
Zayed and Sawyer chatting as Astrid contemplates the drop without a ladder.
Zayed and Astrid on the wall chatting.
Astrid plays with light.
I told our neighbor, Zayad, that he must stay on his side of the wall and stop passing the basketball with my daughter. Cooly, he lay there to snack on his prawn, garlic and chili crisps.
My daughter Astrid home learning in the first few weeks. It was hard at first and now that we only have a week left we have found a routine that suits us all.
My husband goes on the roof at the start of lockdown.
A police car patrols the streets blasting out messages in Arabic and in English. "Stay inside!"
My daughter Astrid looks out on a stormy early evening.
Zayed gives my son a toy car. It and the hands went straight into a soapy wash.
Zayed the neighbors kid and a bird.  My daughter has struck up a friendship with the boy next door.
My daughter hides from me. She is only 9 but sometimes I think she is already a teenager.
The way up on the wall. A rickety ladder. My ear is always tuned to the outside as I am working inside. The wall is high and full of nails and I am scared the kids will fall off. At the same time I don't want to take away the only freedom they have.
Zayed and Astrid chatting on the roof of the empty house next door.
Hag Al Laila marks a couple of weeks before start of Ramdadan. A very Gulf Arab tradition. We prepared 5 goodie bags for the neighbors. Thats when I found out there was 7 siblings. Here Astrid hands them over. Oh and Zayed has his head shaved.
My daughter Astrid is quite content at home. She has us. Her neighbors and she loves reading and drawing. Her world is small and safe.
Astrid turns 9 years old and we decorate the roof top and surprise her with a cake.
Astrid brushes her hair.
Zayed bring a birthday cake for my daughters 9th birthday.
I venture out to see the kids playing on the wall but from the outside.
The first time the kids leave the house in a few months. They didn't seem that interested and we made it to a school car park 300 meters away before they wanted to go back home.
We have had the fortune of being in lockdown with San, the caretaker of my children when I work. She is calm, funny and and together we have a serene harmony.
The skies have been fantastic in lockdown. Ironic since I was working on an architectural book project which got cancelled early March.
Bath Time Bombs; kills at least an hour of the day. What is in that head of yours my daughter? I see you look beyond the camera.
Zayed and Astrid chatting on the wall.
Getting used to the mask Astrid hangs out on the wall watching the world go by.
Zayeds' family hang carpets out to dry before Eid celebrations starts.