Waiting for Dusk

Waiting for Dusk is an editorial publication made from ten photographs taken at Doha Golf Club during the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters.

This is not a golf publication. The game provides the structure: the reason the bags are there, the reason the caddies are crossing the fairway, the reason anyone is standing at the edge of the course in the last hour of the afternoon. But the subject is something else. The subject is the atmosphere that a particular kind of day, in a particular kind of place, produces at a particular time.

Across seven chapters, the publication moves through the day in sequence. Arrival, when the course belongs to the people who prepare it rather than the people who play it. Movement, when the figures crossing the landscape become a pattern visible from a distance. Measurement, when the objects placed in the ground to divide time and distance reveal something about what measurement cannot say. Observation, when the photographs keep returning to the stillness that surrounds each moment of action. Landscape, when the city on the horizon and the course in the foreground reveal a distance that is not only geographical. Light, when the afternoon begins to do what only the last forty minutes of a desert afternoon can do. And Dusk, when the grass holds its colour a little longer than the sky does.

The sport is the reason everyone is there. The light is what remains.

The complete publication is available to read below. Forty pages, ten photographs, seven chapters. Click to open in full.

The study that preceded and informed this publication is in the archive.

• Waiting for Dusk  ·  Doha Golf Club, Qatar  ·  Commercial Bank Qatar Masters