Tor Seidel is a German artist, curator, and lecturer with extensive experience teaching art at universities and in the gallery and exhibition sectors. He is also active as a filmmaker and author of art books, having published works on the UAE, including “The Dubai” (Hatje Cantz, 2015) and “Mannequins” (Kerber, 2018). He has exhibited in numerous cities, such as Paris, Dubai, London, Miami, Berlin, Sharjah, Athens, and Venice. Another artist book by Tor, titled “In Uncharted Territories” (2021), was published by Kerber Verlag and accompanied his first institutional solo exhibition in the UAE at the Maraya Art Center in 2020. Tor has received several awards, including the 2017 Syngenta Photo Award, nominations for the German Photo Book Award in both 2015 and 2018, and the Xposure Photographer Award in 2023. He participated in the UAE Unlimited exhibition Tashweesh 2019, a collaboration with the Maraya Art Centre. He continuously curates art exhibitions in galleries and institutions, such as the Maraya Art Centre in Sharjah and the Xposure International Photography Festival. He is a lecturer at the College of Fine Arts and Design at the University of Sharjah, focusing on photography and video art within the Fine Arts and Media Design Program.