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 environmen.