A Window to Urban Arabia

This set of images seeks to provide viewers with a window into Doha, Qatar, and into the urban heart of the modern Middle East that’s arisen on the Arabian Peninsula. Designed as an exhibit of photography, the images include overlapping themes that explore particular facets or threads of the urban landscape and life therein. In the final accounting, the collection as a whole is intended as an ode to the city itself. Doha is both an astounding and confounding city. A century ago, it was a sleepy and sweltering seaside village on the shores of the Persian Gulf. The small port of Doha was a minor regional hub inhabited by a seafaring merchant class connected to the