Signed; Maher Attar & Mohamed Ali Abdullah - Souk Waqif - 2006

First and only original enhanced edition including a signed gift from its author, the photographer; Maher Attar.

A black-and-white photographic journey through Doha's Souk Waqif, Qatar, restored in the purest Oriental tradition.

Each photography booklet is paced with color drawings on tracing paper representing the souk.
All printing was conceived as a luxury object: UV glossy black varnish on the jacket, black fabric cover, title in hot-foil silver embossed relief.

The black-and-white photographs were printed with special care to reveal all the nuances of blacks in the light.

The book’s images were exhibited on large-format canvases in Doha during the 2006 Asian Games, then at UNESCO in Paris in June 2007 under the high patronage of Her Excellency Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al-Thani.

Mohamed Ali Abdullah’s text recounts the Souk Waqif rehabilitation project, which won the prestigious Aga Khan Architecture Award in 2010 — one of the world’s highest distinctions in architecture.

The author: Maher Attar
Lebanese-French photographer born in 1964, Maher Attar began in 1984 as a war photographer for AFP in Beirut.
In 1985, one of his photos from the Lebanon war graced the front page of the New York Times.
In 1986, Sygma named him correspondent for the Middle East, and he covered the region’s major crises (Iran-Iraq war, Gulf War, kidnappings in Lebanon).
In 1990, he joined Sygma’s Paris bureau and produced reports for Paris Match, Geo, Le Figaro Magazine, Time, Newsweek.
In 2002, he founded his own agency.
In 2006, he created Editions Art & Privilège, specializing in fine photography books. He also developed and directed the image bank at the office of Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser in Qatar.

- Cover: Hardcover with original dust jacket
- Page count: 156
- Dimensions: 31.8 x 23.5 cm

Condition: Excellent, interior free of annotations and dog-eared pages. Cover in excellent condition. Dust jacket intact with no tears or loss, showing some minimal marks at the slightly rubbed corners.
See photos accompanying the description.
A very beautiful copy.

Will be shipped in a carefully packed, sturdy, traceable parcel.