Street Photographer Alisha Khan's Ramadan in Jeddah

Two weeks ago, we put out an open call to street photographers across Saudi Arabia.

Alisha Khan - a Jeddah-based videographer and photographer - answered our calls with a series of beautifully captured images.

“My friends call me Bint al Balad,” Khan says. As the daughter of her city, she knows exactly what to look for and where to find it. Her photos capture the raw energy and movement of Ramadan’s nights; blurry string lights dissolve into the smiles of people carrying boxes of food through crowded streets.

No photograph is entirely still. Clapping hands, passing figures, and shifting light reveal a city that comes alive after dark, always in motion. The movement in her photographs mirrors Khan herself behind the camera, her instinct for motion shaped by years of working in video. “I’m a professional videographer,” she tells SceneNowSaudi. “But photography feels more raw, more imperfect - allowing me to express myself more freely as an artist.”

Each image preserves a fleeting moment and precious memory as Khan documents her “city and its people frozen in time.” In one frame, a daughter lovingly sits on her father's lap in a quiet moment of stillness. In another, restaurant caterers are captured singing and clapping to a song you can almost hear through the photograph; one hand stretching into the frame mid-clap, breaking the edges of the photograph with a burst of energy.

Through Khan’s photographs, Ramadan in Jeddah reveals itself not through typical scenes of lanterns or grand landmarks, but through the seemingly mundane moments that really make up the month’s rhythm. Khan captures these moments - shared meals, late-night laughter, streets glowing softly with light - and through them reveals a street-level portrait of Ramadan as it is lived, felt and remembered.