2009 ARCHITECTURE|VOYEUR NOCTURNE
EXHIBITIONS | ACCOLADES | PRES RELEASES
Amyn Nasser, from Zanzibar is among the world's leading photographers. He is a self-taught visualist shooting fine art and high profile editorials since 1981. His work has graced the covers and editorial pages of the finest magazines including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Cosmopolitan. He has lived in Paris, Milan, New York, Los Angeles, Palm Beach, and travelled to many countries to inspire his creative vision over the 25 year career which ensured him success in each endeavor undertaken.
Amyn believes in the photographer's magic - the ability to stir the soul with light and shape and colour. To create grand visual spit second moments out of small and simple things, and to infuse big and complicated subjects with unpretentious elegance. He respects classic disciplines while at the same time fast, modern and wild.
Through the photographer's eyes a kiss becomes a romance, a stretch of fabric is a costume of endless possibilities, a face is the book that describes a lifetime. When you see his pictures you hear music... or want to... because his light dances. It's playful and full of energy...
Amyn's photographs can stand alone... as frozen moments that decorate, define, entertain and inform. But his skill and imagination can work wonders in collaboration with other great ideas, talents and resources... and craft great stories together.
Amyn: "What is important to me is to meet the expectations I have set and over and above, to add to it. I always seek another approach, another viewpoint. I have been successful because I have ventured to risk my vision; it is this work that has been the most winning. Many years ago I read Irving Penn quote to Bert Stern that 'Photography is a way to sort out the junk of the world.' Though I may not be quoting it precisely, it stayed in my mind. So before I take a picture it is a force of habit to sort out the junk so that what I am trying to say through the picture will come across clearly, regardless of whether it is a nude or clouds, landscapes or beautiful women.
"I am fortunate to have lived my passion for photography through the lens, from high profile editorial work, to capturing the feeling of people and places worldwide. My juxtaposed vision is very much influenced by the East-West culture that I have grown up with. I find it very easy to interact with people from all walks of life and to capture a moment, from the street people of Zanzibar, to the Masaii in East Africa, from the Pashtuns of Afghanistan to photographing some of the most beautiful women in the world like Claudia Schiffer, Helena Christensen, Amber Valetta. I am just as comfortable in an African Masaii Camp as I am in Death Valley. I have my priorities well focused."
"In Zanzibar, we still fly on carpets. The Island of Cleopatra has fossil for sand. Take a fisherman's boat at midnight to visit the island under a clear full moonlit Turkish night, the sky the color of the blue of Cuba, the ocean waves slapping the boat with so much passion relentlessly declaring its love over and over again...ah! the feeling of capturing what you see through the viewfinder, in a moment it's gone!...where do these fabulous moments come from, where do they go to......"Why do the waves ask you the same question? What color is the scent of the blue weeping of violets?"¹ ...the photographer's magic - the ability to stir the soul with light and shape and color. Sense, Style, Motion. Well, we live it somehow everyday.
Amyn strives for visual statements that tell a story with mood, style, motion, and mystery. Creating powerful color, and striking black & white images, showcases Amyn's artful use of light. Through the years Amyn's camera has taken memorable pictures of beautiful women, movie stars, and personalities. He is one of the private photographers of The Aga Khan. His work is published in editorials and a wide range of other media. Amyn's achievements are due largely to his flexible, dynamic, creative style. He is well rounded with a long history of success. He is innovative, resourceful and enjoys the challenge to create beautiful timeless images and dynamic visual stories.
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Every form correctly seen is beautiful. The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet, dramatist. Sayings in Prose
¹ Pablo Neruda Book of Questions
2010 FINE ART|NOMINEE
2010 ARCHITECTURE|WINNER
2010 PDN PHOTO ANNUAL|WINNER
2009 NUDE
2009 PEOPLE|CULTURE