Khalid Al Thani: Polaroids (English / Arabic edition)

Painterly Polaroid portraits of the Qatari desert’s shifting sands, roving wildlife and unique vegetation. No other photographer knows the Qatari desert quite so well as Khalid Al Thani (born 1980). The movements of its sands, the patterns of light, the behavior of its camels, falcons and oryxes, the changes in its sparse vegetation throughout the seasons—all this and more he has patiently observed and captured with his camera. Al Thani photographs exclusively in analog, and for many years a Leica with