TARIQ DAJANI
PHOTOGRAPHY & PRINTMAKING

In May 2026, the Embassy of Mexico in Jordan, together with the Greater Amman Municipality, inaugurated a remarkable modern sculpture entitled "El Caballito"—meaning 'small horse' in Spanish—in the city of Amman. The sculpture, a horse’s head by the renowned Mexican sculptor Sebastián, was offered as a gift from the people of Mexico to the people of Jordan to mark fifty years of diplomatic relations between the two countries. A formal dedication ceremony was held that morning

I recently attended a wedding celebration at Borthwick Castle, just outside Edinburgh. It was one of those rare occasions when place, history, weather and atmosphere seemed to arrange themselves without effort. The castle stood above the landscape with quiet authority, ancient stone, restless sky, trees moving in the wind, and horses grazing below. Borthwick Castle by J M W Turner, 1818 Borthwick Castle is not merely picturesque. Built in the fifteenth century, it is one of S

The ancient Islamic tradition of riding known as Furūsiyya (فروسية in Arabic), meaning “horsemanship”

The ancient olives trees of Bilad al-Sham

In early Oct 2023, I arrived in Jordan on my way to launch a new - and my first - exhibition in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. I had only been in...

Ra’ad (meaning thunder in Arabic رعد ) came to us in 2009 when we were living in Jordan. He is from the Spanish Abha Arabian blood line...

Abha Karachi, our beautiful bay Arabian mare, also known as ‘Cheetah’, has been with us for over ten years. Yet in all this time, despite...

In the year 2012, I moved from Jordan where I was living to the Alpujarra mountains in southern Spain, close to the city of Granada,...

Hlayyil Ramadan, Kehilan Ajuz strain, from Kamar El Zaman by Haboob, b. 1996 This portrait is of the magnificent stallion Hlayyil...

It was in 2005, when I was living in Stockholm, Sweden, that I decided to start photographing horses in the studio-portrait style of the...

Later in life, Arabians came to play an important role in my life in both a professional capacity, as I devoted many years making...