Garangao 2025

Presented as part of the 3rd Edition of Tasweer: Qatar Photo Festival, Garangao 2025 is the result of an open call inviting photographers across Qatar and the wider region to share their reflections on memory, belonging, and resilience.

Drawing from a cherished cultural tradition, this special community exhibition celebrates the act of collective storytelling through photography. The selected images—spanning personal moments, intergenerational connections, and scenes of joy and endurance—offer a visual meditation on how identity is formed, preserved, and expressed.

In amplifying diverse voices and perspectives, Garangao 2025 situates local narratives within broader regional and global dialogues, inviting us to witness the many ways photography continues to shape our understanding of who we are, where we come from, and how we carry forward.

Participating Artists:

Anand Anil Babu
Aadya Amith
Ahamad Fakhroo
Aisha Altaf Hussain
Alwaleed Khaleed
Fatima Al Hamadi
Manjri Saxena
Muneera Alobadli
Nifba Suneer
Osama Akood
Reem Al Bader
Suneer Mohamed

Qatari photographer Khalifa Al Obaidly originally studied marine biology at the University of Qatar and MBA at HEC Paris, Underwater photography was one of his earliest formative experiences with the medium.Since 2002 Al Obaidly has concentrated on Qatari tradition and culture through the twin themes of Desert and Sea, seeking to convey through his photography the importance of the traditional wooden boats, called Dhows, as reflections of Qatari history and bearers of the spirits of Qatari culture and the soul of the pearl divers. In addition to his own photography work, Al Obaidly has worked at a numbe of science and art museums, including the Aquarium at the Qatar National Museum, working on a project to construct a museum of photography and build a collection of work and serving as an assistant director at the Islamic Art Museum (project) through the Qatari National Council for Culture, Art and Heritage.

Al Obaidly is also involved with many Qatari heritage programs and initiatives, as well as leading the Msheireb Art Centre an old girls’ school in heart of Doha has converted to Art center and established “Found Objects Project” (Echo Memory or Sadda AL Thekraiat) which seeks to create art from found objects for Heart of Doha Project. As he worked on the four Museums of Msheireb, Jalmod House, Radwani House, Mohammed Bin Jassem House and The Company House.

Khalifa leaded Firestation (Artist in Resident program) for seven years and developed the artist in resident program with many other programs to support. The local artist and connect them to international art seen. Director of Photo Festival is the new department Al Obaidly creating under QM to celebrate the young artists in the region and support their voice and thoughts in the photography and Art field in WANA region.

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