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Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Inconsistent representation of the Muslim world

below are urls & thumbnails for pretty nice photos of mosques/shrines in pakistan taken by umair ghani. in the past, even nicer pics can be taken using colour saturated film and filters though it is a difficult and tedious process.today these photos are extremely a lot easier to do with digital photography though they are not as nice as slide photos. yet even today there are far few photos of the Muslim world and majority of the ones that are actually being taken are either orientalistic or post-modernistic.even this photographer spends only a fraction of his efforts on Islamic stuff.there is an vaccum for consistent representation of the Muslim world pictorally.










Shrine of Shah Rukan E Alam




















Old Mosque














Drum Player at sufi shrine














Other Photos by Umair Ghani
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4342258
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2797276
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2785086
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4172909
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1872865
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1841174
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1584008
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1583975