Advertisement
Copyright © 2010, artBahrain.org. All rights reserved. Use of this site constitutes agreement with our Terms and Conditions.
Selected works from the
38th Annual Fine Arts Exhibition
38th Annual Fine Arts Exhibition
Jul/Aug 2012
MANAMA
CAPITAL
OF
ARAB
CULTURE
2012
CAPITAL
OF
ARAB
CULTURE
2012
Join artBahrain.org
Jul/Aug
Art Calendar
Jamshid Bayrami: Haj Harmony
La Fontaine Centre of Contemporary Art, Bahrain
In Collaboration with Xerxes Art
until 30 July
La Fontaine Centre of Contemporary Art, Bahrain
In Collaboration with Xerxes Art
until 30 July
Jamshid Bayrami is one the world’s most accomplished photographers, having extensively covered the Iran-Iraq War, and the Middle East for organisations such as Time, The Economist, Webestan and Agence France Presse. His photograph for the cover of an issue of the Economist has proven one of that publication’s most iconic images. Bayrami has received the UNESCO Jamshid Bayrami was born in Tehran, Iran in 1961 and was educated and trained in Tehran. As an artist, Bayrami uses photography as his preferred medium and inevitably draws on his vast photo-journalistic experience. His art focuses on social issues, including organised faith, and his forte lies in capturing popular beliefs and rituals.
Bayrami’s images of the Haj pilgrimage, taken in 2006, are some of the most captivating and enthralling bodies of imagery to arrive on the artistic scene. With subtlety, Jamshid Bayrami has depicted the ritual of the Haj, and through that has analyzed numerous social and political aspects of Islam and its followers.
The conceptuality of Bayrami’s Haj series visually depicts the warmth, order, calm, peace, unity and of the sense of spirituality and oneness that is the essence of not only the Haj pilgrimage, but also of true Islam or of any faith.
Bayrami’s images of the Haj pilgrimage, taken in 2006, are some of the most captivating and enthralling bodies of imagery to arrive on the artistic scene. With subtlety, Jamshid Bayrami has depicted the ritual of the Haj, and through that has analyzed numerous social and political aspects of Islam and its followers.
The conceptuality of Bayrami’s Haj series visually depicts the warmth, order, calm, peace, unity and of the sense of spirituality and oneness that is the essence of not only the Haj pilgrimage, but also of true Islam or of any faith.