‘Our creativity dedicated to environmental conservation and sustainability’

Doha: The World Photography Day, celebrated on August 19, honors the creativity of photographers and highlights their prominent role in capturing huma...

Doha: The World Photography Day, celebrated on August 19, honors the creativity of photographers and highlights their prominent role in capturing human and societal issues, celebrating the values of righteousness, virtue, and beauty in their work, and using the aesthetics and art of photography to reflect human conditions and the efforts sustain and preserve the planet’s resources and its living beings.

On this occasion, photographers have affirmed, in special statements to the Qatar News Agency (QNA), their dedication to preserving the environment, promoting sustainability, and documenting progress, in alignment with Qatar National Vision 2030.

They highlighted their experiences and expertise in this field through their artistic visions and aesthetic methods, employing modern technologies and advancements in photography to express their feelings and connection to the environment, and their commitment to raising awareness about its preservation and the protection of its natural treasures.

In this context, photographer Azzam Abdul Aziz Al Mannai said in an interview with QNA that photography is a form of contemporary art and a form of expression and capturing scenes, documenting moments that may not repeat, adding that World Photography Day serves as an occasion to remind us of the importance of images and their role in documentation.

Regarding his use of photography to document and preserve Qatar’s environment, Al Mannai said that a person is a product of their environment, and for him, the Qatari environment is the habitat where he was born and raised, noting that the camera is his tool for documenting the environmental diversity in Qatar and recording all the changes occurring in the natural system over time. Through images, he shed light on the challenges affecting natural balance, such as climate change, making the photograph a visual and aesthetic motivator to mobilize efforts and innovate solutions for preserving the environment and maintaining natural balance.