(ANSAmed) – FLORENCE – Children diving into a swimming pool in Baghdad, veiled women at the Lilou coffee shop in Bahrain or consulting a tablet in Abu Dhari during an annual art exhibit, hip Turkish youth are some of the protagonists of 80 photos on display at the exhibit ”Everyday Middle East” running from April 11 until May 10 in Florence at Etra, a gallery of the Tommasi studio, as part of the sixth Middle East Now festival of art and cinema in the area.

The show is the consequence of a photographic project born from Instagram and launched by a network of international reporters who work in the Middle East and North Africa sharing images every day. The shots on display have not been edited but are ”portraits of everyday life without filters, as seen through the eye and lens of a photographer”.

Pictures include a shot among the ruins of Petra of a Bedouin trying to call his loved one with a cell phone; a father and son calmly playing at a park and scenes of everyday life on the urban beaches of Dubai.

Canadian reporter Lindsay Mackenzie, the project’s founder, will attend the inauguration.

The photos on display were shot by Tanya Habjouqa, Laura Boushnak, Samuel Aranda, Ahmad Mousa, Tamara Abdul Hadi, Bryan Dention, Dalia Khamissy and many other professionals who contribute for the New York Times, New Yorker, National Geographic and Getty Images.(ANSAmed).