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Doha: Qatar Museums announced the winners of the Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Project Award and the Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Single Image Award, annual competitions open to photographers from the Western Asia and North Africa (WANA) region.
The annual photography competitions are an initiative of Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar, which aims amplify diverse photographic practices and dialogue.
The awards are dedicated to Sheikh Saoud Al Thani (1966-2014), one of Qatar's greatest collectors who largely shaped the Museum of Islamic Art's extraordinary collection. The Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Project Award is an annual award that supports photographers' proposals for the development or completion of a photographic project. The awardees are jury-selected and each receive a grant award of QR30,000 to support the development or initiation of their in-development or new photographic project.
In October 2021, Tasweer announced an open call for applications for the annual grant and formed a jury comprising photographer and editor, Sueraya Shaheen; independent researcher, Kristine Khouri; Qatar Photographic Society's Sheikha Shaikha Al Thani; Charlotte Cotton, artistic director of Tasweer; Tasweer director, Khalifa Ahmad Al Obaidly and senior curator Maryam Hassan Al Thani.
The winners of the 2022 Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Award Project are: Reem Falaknaz, Abdo Shanan, Salih Basheer, Fethi Sahraoui, Mouneb Nassar and Fatema Bint Ahmad.
The Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Single Image Award is an annual open call for a single image that best represents the photographer's experience and personal narrative. Juror Roisin Tapponi from Habibi Collective – an open access resource supporting the filmmaking and video practice of women in South-West Asia and North Africa—selected Aya Muhammed, Muhammed Mostafa, Ryan Brand, Adriane de Souza, Dima Assad, Hallouli Mohamed Ameur, Khalid Alrawahi, Salman Faris, Hani Hamdan Al Sulaimani, Raghda Khairy and Murtadha Adnan Al Hassan.
”For the second year running, we have received profoundly striking entries from aspiring and established photographers. It is a great pleasure for Tasweer to able to recognise the immense creative talent of these photographers through the Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Awards and to provide them with a vital platform to elevate their work and stories,” said Al Obaidly.
With the support of Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Foundation and in collaboration with Hamad Medical Corporation, the entry photographs from this year's edition will be on view on screens across more than 250 in-patient rooms, as part of an initiative to enhance hospital environments through photography.
“We look forward to getting to know and supporting all of the incredible photographers we are celebrating in this second year of Tasweer's annual Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Awards cycle. The responsibility to spread the word and the appreciation of their photographs drives us and we look forward to honouring these talented image-makers this year and at the Spring 2023 Tasweer Festival,” said Charlotte Cotton.
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