The Sharjah Series presents a photographic exploration of the city at a moment of transition, captured in 2002 through 35mm and medium-format black-and-white negatives. The images document an urban landscape where heritage, commerce, and everyday life intersected in ways that have since largely disappeared. The first group focuses on the restored district of Al Merijah, now recognized as a heritage site, where traditional architecture was beginning to be preserved and reinterpreted. Among its most distinctive elements is the circular wind catcher—a rare, rounded form that sets it apart from the more familiar rectilinear barjeel—standing as a unique marker of local architectural ingenuity and climatic adaptation.

The second section turns to the Sharjah Corniche, then still an active maritime edge where wooden dhows sailed regularly to Iran and India, fully integrated into networks of trade and exchange. Unlike today’s upgraded and curated waterfront, the corniche at the time functioned as a working landscape—alive with movement, labor, and direct engagement with the sea. The final images reveal a vibrant marketplace animated by merchants, porters, and traders, where goods were exchanged alongside live animals—turkeys and chickens kept in cages—contributing to a raw and immediate urban atmosphere. Together, these photographs capture a Sharjah that was still grounded in lived practices and everyday transactions, before its transformation into a more controlled and distant spectacle.