The Sound of Jerusalem
Scale visualization (simulated)
view the seriesThe Sound of Jerusalem begins with the skyline of the city where Sabella was born. He photographed it through 360 degrees, then flattened the full circle of horizons into a single horizontal plane — until the architecture of Jerusalem read no longer as a place, but as a frequency.
Domes, minarets, towers, and rooftops rise and fall across the line like the peaks and troughs of a sound wave. The city becomes a vibration — a visual recording of a place built, contested, and rebuilt across millennia. What we see is almost something we can hear: the pulse of a city compressed into a single, continuous signal.
It is Jerusalem turned into rhythm — image as frequency, history as sound. Here, looking becomes a form of listening.
The Collection
Bahrain National Museum Commission
The Sound of Manama
Sabella photographed the skylines of Manama from multiple angles and then flattened the 360 degree views into one horizontal plane, creating heartbeat, vibration, audio-like frequencies. Sabella later commissioned The Khoury Project to interpret the ‘audio waves’ to reveal the sound of Manama.
