Doha, Qatar: The Qatar Photography Center, a Ministry of Culture-affiliate, announced that it will host the GPU Photography Exhibition 'City Speaks' in its headquarters in the Cultural Village Foundation - Katara on Friday, in cooperation with the Global Photographic Union (GPU).
The exhibition comes in celebration of the Qatar Photography Center being accredited as an official GPU center and as the Union's regional representative.
This development is a high-level international recognition of the center's role in supporting photography and one that reinforces the State of Qatar's position as a leading destination for creatives and photographers globally.
Director of the Qatar Photography Center Jassim Ahmed Al Buainain said that the exhibition offers a unique visual experience consisting of 96 photographs taken in different cities around the world, curated into 48 paired panels, with the aim of revealing hidden connections among geographically distant urban experiences.
Al Buainain continued by saying that the exhibition seeks to create a visual dialogue between two different locations in each panel, where scenes overlap and intersect, illuminating one another in unexpected ways.
Through this harmonious arrangement, the exhibition explores the concept of global interconnectedness, presenting parallel rhythms of daily life and architectural forms that echo across places separated by thousands of kilometers, he added.
The Director of the Qatar Photography Center said that the 'City Speaks' is not merely a display of separate photos, but an invitation to view the world as an interconnected whole, in which the voice of each city contributes to telling a broader human and geographical story.
