Ali Assadhu is a Maldivian photographer and award-winning filmmaker. He often works as a commercial photographer covering resorts and weddings in the Maldives, but we featured his project “Local Living,” in which he attempts to capture the true heart and soul of the Maldives in response to mass tourism and gentrification. We featured one specific series from the project, which documents the masked figures of the nation’s Beyya tradition, which comes to life in Kinbidhoo every year on the third day of Eid al-Adha.
