ariane severin is a german born - london based photographer and artist. current projects focus on notions of travel, psycho-geography and the city with an emphasis on the middle east. her work has been exhibited and published in the uk and abroad. her most recent project orient street was exhibited as part of travelling light at the venice biennale 2009, and in 2010 she had a solo exhibition 'orient street souvenirs' at the arab british centre in london.