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Al Sawan
Art Book

Al Sawan

The Art of Camel Racing

First Edition

Step into the world of camel racing — a timeless tradition where heritage, artistry, endurance, and the extraordinary bond between human and camel come together. Al Sawan, The Art of Camel Racing, authored by award-winning art photographer David Learman, captures the spirit, beauty, and cultural legacy of this remarkable sport through an evocative photographic journey across its people, rituals, landscapes, and community. A celebration of tradition and passion, this unique book is for anyone captivated by the enduring soul of the Arabian camel and the race that has become an emblem of the region's identity.

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Austin Macauley Publishers FZE
Sharjah Publishing City, PO Box 519201, Sharjah, UAE

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Al Hejin — cover
Al Hejin — spread
Catalogue

Al Hejin

Across 96 striking art photographs, this evocative archive captures the speed, grace, spectacle, and enduring cultural tradition of camel racing. From the quiet intensity of the animals and their handlers to the dust, movement, landscape, and charged atmosphere of race day, the collection offers an intimate visual record of a world where heritage and contemporary life meet. Rich in texture and character, these photographs by award-winning photographer David Learman transform the camel racecourse into a stage of human connection, ritual, motion, and beauty — preserving moments that might otherwise disappear while celebrating one of the Emirates' most distinctive sporting traditions.

  • Collection, English
  • 100 pages — 96 photographs
  • Digitally printed RGB on Symbol Tatami White 170gsm silk coated paper
  • 300mm × 300mm × 25mm
  • Cover: 3mm cardboard lined with brown Imitlin, embossed copper and cerise foiling
  • Weight: 2.7kg
To order, email catalogue@davidlearman.com
Encounters — cover
Encounters — spread
Catalogue

Encounters

An intimate archive of encounters gathered by David Learman through years of photographic travel, this collection brings together portraits of people met along the way — strangers, hosts, workers, artists, travellers, and passing faces whose stories briefly intersected with his own. Each portrait is a moment of connection: a gesture, a gaze, a posture, a fragment of personality preserved in time. Moving across places and cultures, the photographs form a deeply human record of curiosity, chance encounters, and shared presence, inviting the viewer to look beyond the surface of a face and imagine the lives, histories, and worlds contained within it.

  • Collection, English
  • 100 pages — 96 photographs
  • Digitally printed RGB on Symbol Tatami White 170gsm silk coated paper
  • 300mm × 300mm × 25mm
  • Cover: 3mm cardboard lined with blue Imitlin, embossed copper and cerise foiling
  • Weight: 2.7kg
To order, email catalogue@davidlearman.com
Interpretations — cover
Interpretations — spread
Catalogue

Interpretations

In this evocative archive of abstract photographs and wall art, art photographer David Learman explores the unexpected beauty found in colour, texture, form, light, and the traces of time. Stripped of their original context, surfaces, fragments, patterns, and architectural details become compositions in their own right — sometimes painterly, sometimes geometric, and often somewhere between photography and abstraction. Together, the works invite a slower way of looking, revealing visual poetry in the overlooked and transforming ordinary subjects and surfaces into vivid, enigmatic works of art.

  • Collection, English
  • 100 pages — 96 photographs
  • Digitally printed RGB on Symbol Tatami White 170gsm silk coated paper
  • 300mm × 300mm × 25mm
  • Cover: 3mm cardboard lined with red Imitlin, embossed copper and cerise foiling
  • Weight: 2.7kg
To order, email catalogue@davidlearman.com