Tasweer Awards
The Tasweer Project Award is a grant award of 30,000 QAR per awardee to support the initiation, further development or completion of a photographic project by a photographer resident in Western Asia and North Africa. Awardees will also have the opportunity to exhibit their work and participate in the public and online programme of events as part of the Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar.
The Tasweer Single Image Award is an annual award of 2,000 QAR per awardee. It is open to photographers aged 18 and above who are currently residing in the Western Asia and North Africa (WANA) region. Applicants are invited to submit a single photographic image that best represents their experience and personal narrative. Awardees will have the opportunity to present their images in an online exhibition, receive a cash prize, and take part in Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar’s online and public programming.
2026
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Tasweer 2026 Project Award Open Call
Apply now to the Tasweer Project Award and receive 30,000 QAR to develop your photographic project, with opportunities to showcase your work at Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar.
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Tasweer 2026 Single Image Award Open Call
Apply now to the Tasweer Single Image Award and receive 2,000 QAR for your photographic submission. Selected images will be showcased and featured as part of Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar’s public and digital programme.
2025
Tasweer Project Award 2025 Winners
We are thrilled to announce the ten winners of the Tasweer Project Award 2025 grants: Abdalsalam Alhaj, Amar Abdallah Osman, Amera Elnaal, Clea Rekhou, Lamees Saleh Sharaf Eldin, Mahmoud Khattab, Marwan Tahtah, Mustafa Al Shami, Rehab Eldalil, and Skander Khlif.
Tasweer Single Image Award 2025 Winners
We are thrilled to announce the twenty winners of the Tasweer Single Image Award 2025: Abbas Raad Gkrah Al-Jafar, Abdelrahman Abo Lela, Ahmed Abdelfattah Attia Bakir, Ahmed Sharafaldeen Mohamed Ahmed, Alaa Hameed Dakhil Al Mozan, Amer Abunasser, Batool Khnyab, Hamad H, Huda Abdulmughni, Ibrahim Kandil, Lujain Jo, Mansouor Alhassan, Omar Hamdy Eltahan, Reem Albader, Saja Sattar, Seyit Konyali, Shrouq Ashour, Soukaina Bouali, Zahr Eddine Guerniche, and Ziad Almazraany.
Tasweer Awards 2025 Jurors
We are thrilled to introduce the distinguished jury of the Tasweer Awards 2025. Now in its fifth year, the Tasweer Awards bring together four leading voices in photography and contemporary art: Azu Nwagbogu (Curator and Founder, African Artists’ Foundation, AAF); Mohamed Somji (Director, Gulf Photo Plus, GPP) and Shk. Maryam Hassan Al-Thani (Consultant Curator at Qatar Museums).
2024
Tasweer Project Award 2024 Winners
We are thrilled to announce the ten winners of the 2024 Tasweer Project Award grants –Ismail Zaidy, Imane Djamil, Tamara Abdul Hadi and Roi Saade Mohanad Hasan Kadhim Al Sudani, Mahmoud Abu Hamda, Shadi Nael Al-Tatabi, Wafaa Samir, Lina Geoushy, Adam Rouhana, Mosab Abushama.
Tasweer Single Image Award 2024 Winners
Tasweer congratulates Ahmed Abdulaziz Alabbadi, Adel Al Haimi, Mustafa Shorbaji, Mohamed Abdalla Medo, Waad Saber, Mustafa Turky, Bashar Shglila, Mortada Emad, Ahmed Shaaban Elimi, Muthanna Ba Dhares, Haitham Imad Nuraldeen, Ahmed Hussein Masoud, Ali Mahmoud Abdelwahab Gad, Tarek Elmagrbe, Eslam Ahmed Hamed, Neşe Arı, Salem Sultan Alhajri, Mohamed Nasr, Ahmed Mohamed Hassan and Ahmed Emad.
Tasweer Project Award 2024 Jurors
We are thrilled to announce the four jurors of the Tasweer Project Award 2024. The jury for this fourth year of Tasweer's annual grant are Maryam Wahid (Photographer and the Head of Program and Outreach at Tasweer Photography Festival); Meriem Berrada (Artistic director and Curator); Sami Abdullah Alramyan (Documentary Photographer and Head of “Photo Humanity Grant”); and Sheikha Maryam Hassan Al-Thani (Curator). The jury will review applicants’ proposals and hold meetings before selecting the awardees.
Tasweer Single Image Award 2024 Jurors
We are thrilled to announce the four jurors of the Tasweer Single Image Award 2024. The jury for this fourth year of Tasweer's Single Image Award are Khalifa Al Obaidly (Photographer, Educator and Director of Artists in Residence & Tasweer Photo Festival); Khalid Ismail (Photographer); Manjri Saxena (Freelance Photographer) and Alwaleed Khaled (Photographer). The jury will review applicants’ proposals and hold meetings before selecting the awardees.
2023
Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Project Award 2023
We are thrilled to announce the eight winners of the 2023 Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Project Award grants –Maeen Aleryani, Mohammed Alkouh, Sarah Benamar, Amina Kadous, M’hammad Kilito, Tamara Saade, Mustafa Satkin, Ali Haj Souleiman,
Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Single Image Award 2023
For the 3rd Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Single Image Awards, Tasweer invited the independent curator Rola Khayyat to select the 2023 awardees. Tasweer congratulates Mohamed Hoyzen Ahmed, Hussein AlAamri, Yousef Almasoud, Salaheddine El Bouaaichi, Samir Mustafa Abdel Fattah Hussein, Rita Kabalan, Mohamed Kaouche, Akram Menari, Ahmed Muhammed, Mohamed Nageeb Nasr, Michael Anthony Perrone, and Salem Sultan.
2022
Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Project Award 2022
For the second year of jurying this annual grant award in 2022, the jury was Sueraya Shaheen (photographer and editor); and Kristine Khouri (independent researcher) and Sheikha Shaikha Al-Thani (Qatar Photographic Society), along with Tasweer’s Artistic Director Charlotte Cotton, Director Khalifa Ahmad Al Obaidly and Senior Curator Maryam Hassan Al-Thani. They reviewed applicants’ proposals and held meetings in January 2022 before selecting the awardees. 2022 award winners include: Reem Falaknaz, Salih Basheer, Abdo Shanan, Fethi Sahraoui and Fatema Bint Ahmad
Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Single Image Award 2022
In 2022, for the second year of the Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Single Image Awards, Tasweer invited founder of the Habibi Collective, Roisin Tapponi, to select twelve awardees. The Habibi Collective supports SWANA video and film practices made by women. Tapponi also instigated an independent streaming platform for SWANA cinema in 2018 called Shasha Movies. Winners include: Raghda Khairy, Adriane de Souza, Murtadha Adnan AlHassan, Hallouli Mohamed Ameur, Hani Hamdan Alsuleimani, Muhammed Mostafa, Ryan Brand, Dima Assad, Salman Faris, Aya Muhammed and Khalid Alrawahi.
2021
Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Project Award 2021
In October 2020, Tasweer announced the open call for applications to this annual grant award and formed a jury with Sheikha Sara Al-Thani (Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Awards); Sueraya Shaheen (photographer and editor); and Kristine Khouri (independent researcher) and Sheikha Shaikha Al-Thani (Qatar Photographic Society), along with Tasweer’s Artistic Director Charlotte Cotton, Director Khalifa Ahmad Al Obaidly and Senior Curator Maryam Hassan Al-Thani. They reviewed applicants’ proposals and held meetings in January 2021 before selecting six awardees – Hayat Ahmed Al Sharif, Mohammed El Shamy, Mona Hassan, Rula Halawani, Samar Sayer Baiomy, Shaima Al-Tamimi.
Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Single Image Award 2021
The Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Award was first announced in 2001 as a platform to support photographers. The award was relaunched by Tasweer in its inaugural year of 2021, with the Saoud bin Mohammed Al-Thani Foundation, as annual open call to photographers in Western Asia and North Africa (WANA), continuing its journey of celebrating and nurturing photographic talent. In October 2020, Tasweer announced the open call for applications to this single image award application and announced the awards jury and curators – the Photo Art Qatar collective; Adriane de Souza, Ammar Alqamash, Latifah Aldarwish, and Shaima Ayoub. Their selection of the 10 award-winning single images are shown here.