DOHA.- Qatar Museums presents award-winning photographer Jessica Fulford-Dobson’s acclaimed series of portraits Skate Girls of Kabul at QM Gallery Katara in Doha from 20 July to 21 October 2017, their first showing in the Middle East.

Skate Girls of Kabul tells the extraordinary story of Afghan girls who took up skateboarding, thanks to Skateistan, an Afghan charity that provides skate parks as a hook to get children from disadvantaged families back into the educational system. The series brings to life the colourful, free-flowing and full-of-life spirit of these young girls, offering a new perspective and dimension to skateboarding culture.

Jessica Fulford-Dobson is a London-based portrait photographer. After leaving university, she worked as assistant to award-winning filmmaker Nicholas Claxton on the documentary ‘Linda McCartney: Behind the Lens’. She worked with photographer Alison Jackson on her TV series ‘Doubletake’ for the BBC and her book ‘Private’ for Penguin books.

She started work as a portrait photographer in 2000. Her photographs have since been published in newspapers and magazines worldwide, as well as being exhibited in New York, London and Prague.

In November 2014, out of over 4,000 submissions, her portrait Skate Girl won 2nd prize in the National Portrait Gallery’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, where it was exhibited for the first time. She had her first solo exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London, Skate Girls of Kabul, which was subsequently shown in New York and named IPA’s Best of Show Exhibition 2015. The Smithsonian chose Skate Girls of Kabul as one of their top 10 photography books of the year in 2015.