Time Frame: Simpler times
June 2, 2013
These three young men would now be in the their mid-50s. In a country that has changed so much, it is impossible but intriguing to wonder about their fortunes.
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Time Frame: Concrete progress
May 27, 2013
In the far distant future, archeologists will pore over photographs such as this one as they attempt to unravel the story of Abu Dhabi. This image of the Etihad Towers under construction barely five years ago will represent what might be called the early 21st-century period of the city.
An intimate portrait of a circus
May 22, 2013
How do you tell a story using the details in photographs? How do you get across a sense of feeling and atmosphere? Staff photographer Silvia Razgova spent a few days with the Monte Carlo Circus last month, and as well as producing the photographs printed in the news pages of The National, she was asked to complete a special assignment – to show, through her pictures, how it ‘felt’ to be at the circus.
Time Frame: The end of an era
May 14, 2013
Manchester City Football Club will mark five years under Abu Dhabi ownership in September.
Focal Point: The skin of a lion
May 13, 2013
A challenge for a photographer is to use the visual to convey something to the other four senses.
Time Frame: Catch of the day
May 7, 2013
Until the 1960s it was a common sight to see fishermen casting their nets from the beach along what is now the Abu Dhabi Corniche.
Time Frame: A life behind the lens
April 30, 2013
Happy Birthday René Burri. The Swiss-born photographer turns 80 this month, with the anniversary marked by the publication of a new book of his largely unknown colour images.
Abu Dhabi: five years of change
April 17, 2013
As The National turns five, photo editor Brian Kerrigan looks at some of the past and present images of Abu Dhabi.
Time Frame: Pressing engagement
April 14, 2013
It was at 4am on April 17, 2008, when the first copy of The National rolled off the press in Abu Dhabi. Nine months earlier Martin Newland, the former editor of British broadsheet The Daily Telegraph, had agreed to create the capital’s newest English newspaper.
Time Frame: Overseas excursion
April 8, 2013
When Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed arrives in London at the end of this month, it will be his first state visit to the United Kingdom as President of the United Arab Emirates, but not his first invitation to meet the Queen at Windsor Castle.
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