Tasweer Announces TWO Annual Awards In Photography

Tasweer, Doha based new photography Society announced two photographic annual awards Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Project Award and Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Single Image Awards. These annual, open call awards are intended to recognize and support photographers from Western Asia and North Africa.
The Tasweer photography festival is supported by Qatar Museums, and its Chairperson Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad Al Thani.

The awards are named in honor of the late collector Sheikh Saoud Al Thani, who served as Chairman of Qatar’s National Council for Culture, Arts and Heritage from 1997 – 2005, and created the Al-Thani Award for Photography in 2000.

Sheikh Saoud Al Thani’s remarkable achievements are the subject of the exhibition A Falcon’s Eye: Tribute to Sheikh Saoud Al Thani, currently on view at the Museum of Islamic Art.

The Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Project Award is a grant award of 30,000 QAR per awardee to support the initiation, further development or completion of a photographic project in 2021. Project Award submissions will close the 24th of November 2020. The jurors of the Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Project Award in 2021 are Charlotte Cotton, Khalifa Ahmad Al Obaidly, Maryam Hassan Al-Thani, Sheikha Sara Saoud Al Thani, Sheikha Shaikha Al-Thani, and Suraya Shaheen.

Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Single Image Award is an annual award open to photographers of all ages and degrees of experience. The open call closes on 8th November 2020. The 2021 Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Single Image Award guest jurors - the photography collective Photo Art Qatar – will select the winning single images and curate a group online exhibition; nighttime, outdoor projection and screen-based experiences.

Working with the Tasweer team, Photo Art Qatar will curate a free magazine dedicated to Tasweer 2021 and the Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Awards.