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TARIQ DAJANI

Photographer, printmaker, freethinker

 

STATEMENT

When a piece of art grabs my attention, I immediately feel its impact. For me, art is, first and foremost, an emotional experience.

 

My work is all about capturing feelings—preserving moments and memories. While deeply personal, it’s intentionally open, inviting others to connect and make it part of their own story.

“It is only with the heart that one can truly see.

What is essential is invisible to the eye"

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "The Little Prince"

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ABOUT ME

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Over the past 30 years, I learned my craft as a photographer and printmaker while living in England, Sweden, Dubai, and Spain. Along the way, I developed a style to reflect the truth and emotion that I was seeking. Despite many years living in Europe, my connection to my roots remains strong and meaningful.

My work often explores themes of identity, belonging, and cultural heritage. I’m grateful to have exhibited widely, with prints of my art held in public and private collections worldwide.

Beyond my creative pursuits, I’m a dreamer and freethinker with a deep connection to nature and animals - especially to horses and dogs.

 

WHAT OTHERS SAY

"There is a strange-making in much of Dajani’s work, a way of making perfectly ordinary things seem quite strange and extraordinary, leaving the viewer feeling touched, moved, disturbed, with a whole complex of emotions, desperately wanting to know more.”  ~ John Wood, poet, photographic historian & editor

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A FEW LINKS

"Tariq Dajani", Rfotofolio

The Art of Filāḥa”, Collier Brown, Lensculture

"A thing of beauty", Matthew Teller

"Photographic Studies of the Arabian Horse", Horse Times

Caballo Árabe (in Spanish)

EXHIBITIONS

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

"Zeitoun", Dar al-Anda Gallery, Amman, Jordan

"Drinkers of the Wind", Ahlam Gallery, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

"On This Land", Jasmin House, Amman, Jordan 

2020

"Drinkers of the Wind", Katara Arts Centre, Doha, Qatar 

2019

"Kitab al-Filaha", Casa Árabe, Córdoba, Spain

"Hikāyāt (stories)", Jacaranda, Amman, Jordan

2018

"Kitab al-Filaha", Casa Árabe, Madrid, Spain

"Drinkers of the Wind", Showcase Gallery, Dubai

2017

"Kitab Al-Filaha", Biblioteca de Andalucia, Granada, Spain

2015

"Kitab al-Filaha", Jacaranda, Amman, Jordan

2014

"El Asil y El Noble", Kasser Rassu, Marbella, Spain

2013

"SAQR, the hunting falcon", Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi, UAE

2011

"SAQR, the hunting falcon", Jacaranda, Amman, Jordan

2009

"Above Wadi Rum", Jacaranda, Amman, Jordan

"ASIL, the Arabian horse", The Empty Quarter, Dubai, UAE

2008

"ASIL, the Arabian horse", Zara Centre, Amman, Jordan

"Arabhästen", Galleri Hippo, Stockholm, Sweden

2003

"Skin", Galleri Z:e, Stockholm, Sweden

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

"Expressions Unveiled", Eiwan Al Gassar Gallery, Doha, Qatar

"Shadow and Light", University of Iowa, USA 

"The World is a handkerchief / El mundo es un pañuelo", Coral Gables Museum, Florida, USA

2022

"Gratitude", Cervantes Centre, Image Festival Amman, Jordan

"Trees Stir in their Leaves", Alice Chaiten Baker Interdisciplinary Gallery, CCP, University of Arizona, USA

"The World is a handkerchief / El mundo es un pañuelo", Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2021

"Retrospectiva: una década de reencuentro con el mundo árabe"Casa Árabe, Córdoba, Spain

"The Gallery", The Gallery Building, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

"Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition", Shikoku Island, Japan

"III International Mini Print Cantabria", Instituto Cervantes, Bordeaux, France

2020

"III International Mini Print Cantabria", Santander, Spain

"The World is a handkerchief / El mundo es un pañuelo", Blackburn 20 |20 Gallery, NY, US

2019

"Skin of the Print", Oxmarket Gallery, Chichester, UK

"Shadow and Light", Al-Mutanabbi Street project, Liverpool Arab Arts Festival, UK

2018

"Kitab al-Filaha", Impact10, Santander, Spain

2013

"An Eye for an Ear", Photography Open Salon, ChinaHouse, Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia

2012

"An Eye for an Ear", Photography Open Salon Arles, France

2010

"Playground", Lumas, Gallery, Köln, Germany

2009

"Three Dimensions", The National Museum of Bahrain, Manama

"My Name is Robot", The Jam Jar, Dubai

2008

"Art Abode", XVA Gallery/Harvey Nichols, Dubai

2005

"Capture", AoP Gallery, London, UK

2003

"03", AoP Gallery, London, UK

2001

John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

1999

"Edge", AoP Gallery, London, UK

1994

"Freedom Now", Photographers' Gallery, London, UK

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