Issue 002 · Sold out

ZELZAL 002 — Crossings

  • Launched on Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, February 2026
  • Shot in Hatta; production Clandestino Films
  • Cover story: TAXKORGAN by Hailun Ma
  • Stocked at Gulf Photo Plus
  • Cover price 120 AED / 30 EUR / 30 USD

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Cover of ZELZAL 002 Crossings

Manifesto · Crossings

Crossings is not about movement. It's about what movement does to you.

We come from in-between places. Not fully from here. Never fully from there.

Fashion here is not decoration. It's armor. It's signal. It's survival language.

We don't smooth the edges. We let them cut.

This is ZELZAL. An aftershock of movement. A fault line where new forms emerge.

Stories in 002 (22)

  1. WHERE LIGHT LINGERS: man at a night market holding a white Pomeranian — Where Light Lingers in ZELZAL 002

    Where Light Lingers

    Anass Ouaziz

    Wuhan, China

  2. MI ABUELO, JOSE: elderly man in a blue jacket against brick — Mi Abuelo, Jose in ZELZAL 002

    Mi Abuelo, Jose

    Priscila Kim

    Argentina

  3. Porta Palazzo

    Karim El Maktafi

    Turin, Italy

  4. HELD WHILE MOVING: man beside a horse in shallow sea — Held While Moving in ZELZAL 002

    Held While Moving

    Ali Shehabi

  5. HOLDING THE FIRE: man raising flaming boxing gloves against blue sky — Holding the Fire in ZELZAL 002

    Holding the Fire

    Yassine Taha, Bruno Surace (Talent)

    Hatta, UAE

    Production Clandestino Films

  6. Shared Engines

    Lara Perrotte

    Morocco

  7. UNDER WATCH: young man in a lit Cairo alley at night — Under Watch in ZELZAL 002

    Under Watch

    Bechir Gueled

    Cairo, Egypt

  8. WRAPPED IN TIME: woman in flowing pale lamba fabric — Wrapped in Time / Lamba in ZELZAL 002

    Wrapped in Time / Lamba

    Miora Rakotondratrimo

    Madagascar

    AD with Mandala Rahenitsoa · model Aaliyah Andria

  9. TAXKORGAN: bride with long braids beside an elder in a yellow headscarf, mountains — Taxkorgan in ZELZAL 002

    Taxkorgan

    Hailun Ma (Cover story)

    Xinjiang

    Cover story

  10. Held Together

    Angelo

    Nepal

  11. Low Visibility

    Sadiq Y. Al-Harasi

    Yemen

  12. L'Insubmersible

    Jihane Boufous (NAMLA) (Art)

    Drawn in Morocco

  13. Protection

    Mariam El Gendy

    Cairo / Beirut / Fayoum

  14. Rites in Motion / Our Shared Derb

    Shams Al-Fekaiki

    Marrakech

  15. HELD BY THE LAND, Oman — Held by the Land in ZELZAL 002

    Held by the Land

    Hussein Alaamri

    Oman

  16. ON THE ROAD: back of an orange van with a painted star — On the Road in ZELZAL 002

    On the Road

    Ayoub Alahyane (Dadak)

    Morocco

  17. Shared Routes

    Sumayah Fallatah

    Kano, Nigeria

  18. LEARNING TO FALL: parkour backflip over the sea — Learning to Fall in ZELZAL 002

    Learning to Fall

    Osama Ahdi

    Badalona, Spain

    Cast Ismail Bouh, Mohammed El Naji, Reda El Abassi

  19. Holding the Sky

    Salem Hamed Al Shammari (Traceofsalem)

    Saudi Arabia

  20. Just a Word

    Abdullah Al Zanki

    Dubai

  21. FACING THE WIND: woman in red on volcanic rocks by the sea — Facing the Wind in ZELZAL 002

    Facing the Wind

    Zoe

    Jeju, South Korea

  22. Zanka 619

    Zayene Bechir (Closing art)

    Tunisia

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