11:00 AM
Tasweer 2023 Closing Event Celebrations at M7
Past Event
On May 13 we invite you to come celebrate the exhibitions, activities and artists of Tasweer 2023. We have a busy program planned from 11am onwards with the first guided tour of the A Chance To Breathe and Doha Fashion Fridays by the exhibitions’ curator and Tasweer’s Artistic Director, Charlotte Cotton. From 11am onwards, 3 pop-up exhibitions will be on show: amazing zines made by local and international photographers who joined Tasweer’s zine and DIY publishing workshops curated by Andreas Laszlo Konrath and Adriane de Souza over the course of Tasweer 2023. Join us and the local participating photographers to see their incredible zines and learn more about their photographic approach. Tasweer is also showing a pop-up exhibition of new photographs made by A Chance To Breathe Rohingya artists Azimul Hasson, Dil Kayas and Omal Khair during Ramadan and Eid-Al-Fitr showing the rituals, fashion and celebrations within the Rohingya refugee communities in India and Bangladesh. At 2pm, in partnership with Doha Debates, VCUQ and Shared Studios, there is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet A Chance To Breathe Rohingya artists Azimul Hasson and Omal Khair, via video link live to them at Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
A Chance To Breathe and Doha Fashion Fridays
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
3 pop-up exhibitions:
- Zine Workshop Exhibition - Tasweer’s zine and DIY publishing workshop with Andreas Laszlo Konrath
- 2- Zine Workshop Exhibition - Tasweer’s youth photography and zine-making workshop with Adriane de Souza
- New photographs made by A Chance To Breathe Rohingya artists Azimul Hasson, Dil Kayas and Omal Khair during Ramadan and Eid-Al-Fitr.
2:00 PM
Meeting A Chance To Breathe Rohingya artists Azimul Hasson and Omal Khair:
A Chance To Breathe Rohingya artists Azimul Hasson and Omal Khair, will be present via a live video link from Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
About Charlotte Cotton
Charlotte Cotton is a curator, writer and creative consultant who has explored photographic culture for over twenty-five years. She has held positions including curator of photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum, head of programming at The Photographers’ Gallery in London, curator, and head of the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She is the founding and current Artistic Director of Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar.
About A Chance To Breathe
A Chance To Breathe presents the remarkable photographs of Omal Khair, Dil Kayas and Azimul Hasson, who have been documenting their lives and those in their Rohingya refugee community living in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh since 2018. By telling visual stories of life, resilience and hope, their photographs help reframe the prevailing narratives of violence, death and victimhood that often describe Rohingya refugees’ experiences. In 2018, Doha Debates teamed up with Fortify Rights to equip and support these three talented photographers and give the world an inside look at the lives within the world’s largest refugee camp. Omal Khair dreamed of becoming a professional photographer – a forbidden occupation in her indigenous homeland. Azimul Hasson used to study and play football back at home, and he still dreams of pursuing higher education there. Dil Kayas is a mother of three. Like Omal, she harbored a passion for photography, but the Myanmar government denied her the right to pursue it. These three Rohingya photographers are talented, creative and hard-working and this exhibition celebrates their vital and ongoing storytelling.
About Andreas Laszlo Konrath
Andreas is a photographer and artist educator and utilizes the zine format as a vehicle for many projects, additionally publishing with other artists citing community building, exchange, and collaboration as a key inspiration and motivator. Andreas' zines have been archived in collections at the ICP Triennial, The Getty Research Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, MoMA Library & The Yale University Library. Andreas contributes regularly as a visiting artist to FIT, ICP, Parsons School of Design at The New School, Pratt Institute, Red Hook Labs & SVA, and has organized zine workshops for Fondation Louis Vuitton, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Penumbra Foundation, Red Hook Community Justice Center & Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar.
About Adriane de Souza
Adriane de Souza is a Brazilian photographer currently based in Doha, Qatar. She received her BA degree in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Years later, she shifted to photography as a way of self-liberation, research, and to further understand human interactions and emotions. She is currently undertaking her MFA in interdisciplinary Design Studies at VCUQ. Adriane has been selected by Adobe as a part of Adobe Rising Stars in 2019, featured in PH Museum Mobile Photography Book. She won second place and was book cover for Photos from the Arab World by Jotun, and third place in the single image category on Lens Culture Journeys 2020. She was also part of the jury of the Single Image Awards at Tasweer Photo Festival 2021. Adriane works as a facilitator in several educational projects, reflecting on freedom and encouraging others to search for their path through photography.
Her work has been exhibited in numerous cultural venues internationally, including in Brazil, Qatar, Russia, UAE, and the United Kingdom. Her photographs have been commissioned and published by notable media titles including Vogue, GQ, New York Times, Der Spiegel, The Telegraph, Stern Magazine.