Photography & Content Creation Places in Doha

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Richard Serra's tallest public work — seven steel plates honouring the spiritual weight of the number in Islamic culture.

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Al Jassasiya Rock Art Site

874 petroglyphs on a north-eastern plateau — dhows, ostriches, cup marks and Neolithic mystery.

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Al Koot Fort

Doha Fort in the heart of the city — Ottoman origins, Qatari battlements and a museum open by appointment.

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Al Thaqab Fort

Coral-and-limestone fort guarding a desert well in Madinat ash Shamal — date stores and a nearby village.

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Barzan Towers

Sixteen-metre watchtowers in Umm Salal — coral walls, moon-calendar observation and Ottoman-era vigilance.

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Battoula by Ghada Al Suwaidi

A Qatari woman in traditional dress, painted in the same soft pastels as the port's walls.

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Cosmos

Jean-Michel Othoniel's golden interpretation of the oldest surviving Islamic astrolabe.

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East-West/West-East

Richard Serra's four steel plates spanning more than a kilometre in the Qatari desert.

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Gandhi's Three Monkeys

Subodh Gupta's three oversized heads in military gear at Katara.

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Gekröse by Franz West

A lacquered pink aluminium intestine twisting on the Doha Corniche near Al Masrah Park.

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Hood Mural, Mina District

A wall that argues for graffiti itself — the fight to make street art legitimate expression.

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Imam Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab Mosque

Qatar's State Grand Mosque — sandstone domes, skyline views and capacity for more than 30,000 worshippers.

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Maman

Louise Bourgeois's nine-metre spider of marble, bronze and stainless steel.

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My Inner Peace by Noura Al Mansoori

A façade turned into a meditation on stillness and finding one's place.

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Perceval

Sarah Lucas's life-size bronze shire horse grazing in Aspire Park.

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Pouce

César's giant thumb at a crossroads in Souq Waqif.

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Small Lie

KAWS's wooden marionette figure at Hamad International Airport.

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Smoke

Tony Smith's 24-foot aluminium lattice near the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center.

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Sofles Mural, Mina District

A futuristic figure, Gulf patterns and a single fish — old Qatar meeting the new city at the water's edge.

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The Force of Nature II

Lorenzo Quinn's bronze figure swirling a hoop of wind at Katara Amphitheatre.

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Zekreet Fort and Mosque

Beach-rock fort and early twentieth-century mosque on Qatar's western coast — near Richard Serra's desert plates.

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