Jeddah Roundabouts: Circling the City is a photographic and conversational study of public sculptures embedded within Jeddah's urban circulation. Scattered across roundabouts and major arteries, these monumental, eccentric, modernist, at times brutalist, works form an overlooked open-air museum that has shaped the city's visual and social landscape for decades.
The book offers a rare perspective on Jeddah's sculptural heritage and its connection to the civic ambitions of the city's former mayor. The project crystallises around a photographic essay by young photographer Hatun Ali, documenting and cataloguing the monuments, alongside interviews with male and female taxi drivers conducted by researcher Nouf Al-Harthi and an essay by Turki Gazzaz (Bricklab).
Through this layered approach, the publication reframes Jeddah's roundabouts as more than traffic infrastructure: they emerge as poetic civic markers, revealing how residents of this historic gateway to the Hajj navigate shifting social realities. Together, image and testimony trace the transformation of a harbour city in the midst of rapid change, offering both visual richness and intimate insight into its evolving urban story.
