Photography by Lalla Essaydi

Moroccan-born, New York-based photographer Lalla Essaydi lures the viewer into her third solo show at Howard Yezerski Gallery with a pair of stunning large scale pictures hung in the front window. Each depicts an Arab woman covered in calligraphy and posed to imitate a famous nineteenth-century Orientalist painting. Fumee d'Ambre Gris , 2008, which features a young woman lifting her white veil to