People & Street Life

Pohotgrapher Zuhair AlTraifi, Street Photography, Peoples life, Portraits from Saudi Arabia only

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2nd visit to Cologne city - street photography

Back again after so many weeks if not months without any thing to publish, I never thought at all I’ll be going back to Cologne for the 2nd year in a row, this time I didn’t have that much time for photography (cause that wasn’t the main reason to visit) and I stand to what I said in previous blog, this is not the type of cities or country to visit for street photography, anyway I was there for…

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Burial in Saudi Arabia 3 – Documentary

Documentary about burial in Saudi Arabia and to be exact in one of AlHasa villages, I already published years ago 2 blog post from the same subject, I’ll link them at the end of this post. The burial ceremony footage begin after the arrival of the deceased to the cemetery, people participate in carrying the deceased on a special carrier placed on the top a piece of cloth that has names of Allah…

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Qatar street photography for 1st time

I’ve been to Qatar once before and it was family trip, didn’t have the chance to go out in a photowalk, last November I had the chance to go for a calisthenics competition and of course in the morning was my free time, so I went to the one place I never saw with my own eyes (or even photos because no one takes causal/daily life photos there at all) which was Souq Waqif, it was completely new…

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Dammam Central Market 11 – Street photography

Hello all, new photowalk to the central market in Dammam, lately I’ve been busy with other stuff then photography so my photowalks have greatly decreased but I keep trying my best not to cut this one thing that I love from my life, without more taking here are the results of this photowalk. مرحبا بالجميع، جولة تصوير جديدة لسوق الدمام المركزي، مؤخراً أصبحت مشغولاً بعدة أشياء اخرى بعيداً عن…

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AlBatha Area in Riyadh 5 – Street photography

It’s been 6 months since I’ve gone out for a photowalk, that’s the longest break I had for a while, and I wish to go back to my regular things with photography and editing. Anyway the chance was in front of me for a quick walk in Riyadh and even though it was Friday morning, I still went out for AlBatha area which I already visited many times, maybe next time in Riyadh I’ll target another…

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Day 113 AlHasa - Residential Area

Hello all, welcome to my blog, if you don’t know what’s this project about please read this page first, thank you. مرحبا بكم جميعاً في مدونتي، إذا كنت لا تعرف عن هذا المشروع وهدفه إقرأ هنا في هذه الصفحة، شكراً لك. Hello all, I’m back again with a new post from Saudi after a long time with no shooting or even publishing anything from Saudi, my archive is done and I need to get back on the…

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Cologne daily life at the metro - street photography

Hello, when I was in Cologne the best for transportation is the metro/tram so I used it daily there, and took the chance to capture some of the daily life and scenes that caught my eye, these are some of the results from different stations & days of using the metro. مرحبا، عندما كنت في مدينة كولونيا كان أفضل وسيلة للتنقل هي استخدام الميترو لذلك استخدمته بشكل يومي هنا وكنت انتهز الفرصة في إلتقاط…

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Trip to Cologne Germany - street photography

First visit to Germany and it’s also first ever visit to Europe, I didn’t imagine my next solo trip outside of Saudi would be Cologne city in Germany, to be honest it’s not the ideal place for my kind of photography, it’s full of scenes & daily life worth taken and enjoyable of course but it’s not worth the money, that’s why my trip wasn’t intended for photography itself but to attend a…

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AlZal Market Riyadh - Street photography

Hello, I had the chance to visit Riyadh to attend a calisthenics event for 2 days, luckily for me the morning was free time so I took that time for going on a photowalk and in the 2nd day I went to AlZal Market downtown Riyadh, it was Saturday so the day for market was just getting started and I saw different scenes there and some unique ones. I visited the market more then once and published…

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AlBatha Area in Riyadh 4 – Street photography

Hello, I had the chance to visit Riyadh to attend a calisthenics event for 2 days, luckily for me the morning was free time so I took that time for going on a photowalk and in the 1st day I went to usual place AlBatha area, it was super early morning and it was Friday so the streets until getting to the market were almost empty, but Friday morning is special case for AlBtha, a lot of foreign…

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Manama Central 4 – Street photography

Hello all, it’s been a while since I last published anything, so last month I made a quick visit to Bahrain which in the past was something regular to do but for several reasons I find myself going there only once every few months, my free time was at arrival which was at noon and it was Friday so I went to Manama central market and did a photowalk there and go many great scenes that I will share…

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Dammam Central Market 10 – Street photography

Hello all, yet another photowalk from Dammam Central Market, I kept visiting the same streets & the same alleys, some remind unchanged and some do change for example there was a big parking lot that was closed for a project (parking lot building and a mall) so that’s a big change, still the main focus of going there is shooting the daily life. مرحبا بالجميع، مرة اخرى جولة جديدة في سوق الدمام…

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Road trip to Riyadh for 2 days

Well it’s been a while since I’ve taken any road trip at all for myself, and for change I didn’t go specially for photography, I have a calisthenics competition that I wanted to attend and luckily they didn’t have any activity in the morning so naturally I had to take the chance and go out for photography! It was the weekends the first day Friday I headed towards AlBatha area downtown which I…

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AlDawaser area in Dammam - Street photography

Hello all, another photowalk in Dammam in a familiar area which is AlDawaser area one of the oldest areas in the city where I had lots of post blogs from there, the area is old with lots of traditional houses which still lots of local families live there along side with foreign workers. I think this is my very first photowalk with my new camera the X100vi, so I remembered very well doing…

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AlMubarakeya Market in Kuwait 2 – Street photography

Last June I had the chance to be in Kuwait for a calisthenics competition (by the way I’m an athlete in this sport) so in my free time I’ve visited AlMubarakeya market which is essential for anyone that visits Kuwait, didn’t take that much photos because I was with my wife but I’m happy for what I’ve got. في شهر يونيو الماضي كانت لدي الفرصة في تواجدي في دولة الكويت لبطولة لعبة الكاليسثنكيس (على…

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10 years with Fujifilm X100s

First of all never thought that this day will come to say this but the last post will probably be the last one that showcase images from my beloved Fujifilm X100s, it’s been 10 years straight using this camera in most of my street photowalks from all over Saudi Arabia, I visited more then 30 cities with it & visited 8 countries, also it did me really good documenting some of my favorite moments…

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Day 112 Jeddah - Historical Jeddah

Hello all, welcome to my blog, if you don’t know what’s this project about please read this page first, thank you. مرحبا بكم جميعاً في مدونتي، إذا كنت لا تعرف عن هذا المشروع وهدفه إقرأ هنا في هذه الصفحة، شكراً لك. Hello all, one more post for my Saudi Street Life project and I’ve got the chance to be in Jeddah to receive an award I’ve one it and published it all about it here, I went to…

Day 112 Jeddah - Historical Jeddah