Photographing Artists Series – II

The Photographing Artists Series is an attempt to compile various perspectives and angles of how artists are perceived. Portraiture was once only the domain of artists who painted or drew famous people, commissions, muses, lovers and themselves. However, it has always intrigued me how artists are perceived by others. I have commented on it before in the blogpost ‘artist: the raving lunatic’ and most recently also did a feature on a self-portraiture group show ‘the artist and the self’. Also see Photographing Artists Series I.

In this series I will be posting images of Pakistani artists that have been taken by various photographers in the photographer’s studio, in the artist’s studio, at exhibitions/events, or even candidly.

If you have photographs of artists that you’d like to share, please email them at saira[at]sairaansari[dot]com with details.

Artists photographed by Mobeen Ansari

Mobeen Ansari is young, talented and driven by a manic love for the captured image. In the last decade Mobeen has travelled all across Pakistan and taken some stunning photographs of the land, its streets and its people. Although heavily engrossed with portraiture at the moment, Mobeen’s landscapes and industrial photographs are breathtaking.

Today I’m featuring portrait photographs taken from a project that Mobeen has been working on for almost 2 years. (It was hard to make the selection as he has a multitude of photographs and personalities to choose from, but maybe those can be saved for later posts). The massive project, which is a  journey of recording faces and histories of iconic personalities of Pakistan, will culminate in a published book (hopefully in 2012). Mobeen’s work has also been featured in many publications across Pakistan, as well as a recent surprise feature in National Geographic Russia.

See more work at Mobeen Ansari’s facebook page or his flikr account.

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Artists photographed (in order of appearance): RM Naeem, Salima Hashmi, Saeed Akhtar, Raza Kazim, Iqbal Hussain, Anwar Maqsood, Sheema Kirmani.

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