Abdulaziz Al-Balawi: ‘Exceptional pictures demand their price from you’

DUBAI: Saudi photographer Abdulaziz Al-Balawi, who works under the name Aziz AlUla, in honor of his hometown, was around 12 when he first held a camera. “The moment I put my eye to the viewfinder and pressed the shutter, I felt something strange,” he tells Arab News. “I realized this small box held an extraordinary power; to trap light, to freeze time, and to keep the moment forever. From that day I no longer saw AlUla with ordinary eyes. I started seeing every scene and every angle as a living