Find Your Eyes - Benji Reid

Name: Find Your Eyes - Benji Reid
Start: 2025-09-19T19:30:00+04:00
Location: New York University Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Schedule

Fri, 19 Sep, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+04:00

Location

New York University Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | Abu Dhabi, AZ

Photography, choreography, and theater meet to create striking and surreal images
Journeying through highs and lows, Find Your Eyes explores how we make sense of the world through our stories and our art. Drawing from the well of his life experiences, pioneer of hip-hop theater turned award-winning photographer Benji Reid mixes Afro-futurist imagery with hard-hitting tales from his life and adventures in an unexpected show.
In Find Your Eyes, Benji explores vulnerability, tragedy, and triumph through the photographers’ lens. He takes you behind the scenes on an emotional rollercoaster where conflict meets beauty and the stage becomes his studio. Watch as Benji opens up on some of the most moving episodes of his life, and uses them to inspire his art. This passionate piece draws on Benji’s work both as an award-winning photographer and pioneer of hip-hop theater – bringing dancers and photography into the fold to create images in real time in front of his audience.