Here is My Secret

Khalid Bin Hamad Bin Ahmad Al Thani

ISBN 10: 3869303441 / ISBN 13: 9783869303444

Published by Steidl Edition 7L, Göttingen, 2013

About this Item

160 pages. Oblong format hardcover, bound in cloth covered boards and wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. Still in the publisher's shrinkwrap.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Here is My Secret
• Publisher: Steidl Edition 7L, Göttingen
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3869303441
• ISBN 13: 9783869303444
• Binding: Cloth
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Condition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography
  • Art: Monographs

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Synopsis

Much of Qatar appears to be a desert stretching in all directions―a seemingly lifeless landscape of low, barren sand plains and rolling dunes. Yet within this desolateness are signs of life and things of beauty which Al-Thani―who has perhaps examined the Qatari landscape more closely than any other photographer―reveals for the first time to an international audience. The photos in Here is My Secret were taken in 2008 and 2009, when Al-Thani traversed Qatar, his only companions a Toyota four-wheel drive and his Leica camera. Eschewing human change on the landscape, Here is My Secret is a poetic contemplation on nature and an illustration of the larger cultural transformation that Qatar is currently undergoing.

From the Back Cover

Much of Qatar appears to be a desert stretching in all directions-a seemingly lifeless landscape of low, barren sand plains and rolling dunes. Yet within this desolateness are signs of life and things of beauty which Al-Thani-who has perhaps examined the Qatari landscape more closely than any other photographer-reveals for the first time to an international audience. The photos in Here is My Secret were taken in 2008 and 2009, when Al-Thani traversed Qatar, his only companions a Toyota four-wheel drive and his Leica camera. Eschewing human change on the landscape, Here is My Secret is a poetic contemplation on nature and an illustration of the larger cultural transformation that Qatar is currently undergoing.
Khalid Bin Hamad Bin Ahmad Al-Thani, born in 1980 in Doha, describes photography as a "language without subtitles" and his project is to establish a unique and authentic Qatari photographic language. With a degree in business from Qatar University, Al-Thani has now focused his attention on the Qatari desert, his ambition to reveal its unacknowledged beauty to the general public.
Co-published with the Qatar Museums Authority Gallery, Doha