Frame and Focus
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Frame and Focus
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Alhosh Gallery hosts Frame and Focus, a group exhibition of twelve photographers presented with Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar, on view at the gallery on The Pearl from 5 September to 5 October 2026. It marks the close of the second edition of Tasweer's Frame and Focus advanced photography course, run with the VII Foundation, Qatar Preparatory School and Qatar Museums.
The photographers developed their projects over fourteen weeks of study, critique and mentorship with international professionals, among them Alessia Glaviano of PhotoVogue, Marie Sumalla of Le Monde, Gary Knight of the VII Foundation and the filmmaker Ross Kauffman. The course was led by the Doha-based artist and educator Rola Khayyat, and the show is co-curated by the VII Foundation and the street photographer Abdulla Faisal Al-Khalaf.
The works on view span belonging, memory, faith, heritage, migration and family life. Abdullatif Ahmad Alnaemi's The First Chalk Line returns to Qatar's old schools; Abdullatif Jaidah's The House of God looks at life inside mosques; Fatema Ahmad Al-Doh follows Arab traders' historic routes to Lamu Island in Kenya; Burair Ali Alkishri records the rose harvest of Oman's Al Jabal Al Akhdar; and Maja Bačić photographs expatriate women in the seaside places where they have found belonging in Doha.
Alongside them are projects by Alwaleed Alkhaja, Christophe Buffet, Jaili Hajo, Jhenny Marian Laya Perez, Jihad Hammoud, Osama Abdallah and Syed Hasan Iqbal Zaidi, moving from a community garden in a historic Doha school to Venezuelan families in Qatar and the rock art of Balochistan. The gallery describes the works together as speaking "to endurance and the human capacity to adapt through change."
Tasweer director Khalifa Al Obaidly calls the project part of "a wider ambition for photography in Qatar and the region: to give photographers the space, guidance and visibility to take their practice further." For the gallery, the show marks "a step toward a sustainable photography ecosystem in Qatar, driven by a generation of artists equipped to tell their own stories through images."
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