Sahir Raza through lens wants to change the world

New Delhi, June 10 (UNI) Be it the aftermath of riots in Gujarat, or a natural calamity like the 2005 earthquake in Kashmir; or a still from the life of a common man, Sahir Raza's photographs express more than what is depicted in the frame and focus attention to some minute but important aspects of life, which otherwise never seem to be important.

This amateur and enthusiastic Indian photographer is no more an unknown face. Starting his tryst with photography at the very tender age of nine, Sahir has already got a lot of international recognition for his social activism through photographs, covering aftermaths of Gujarat carnage, post Tsunami situation in Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Andaman and the Kashmir earthquake.

Though he has just completed his graduation from St Stephens Collge, Delhi University, he has already got offers for admission from two widely known intenational film institutes- PCFE Film School Prague and EICAR, Paris.

With his unique angle of touching scenes he not only expresses the agony, tragedy and wounded humanity via simple means like half burnt houses or panicked eyes, but also the irony of helplessness of mankind which is determined to design the earth for its own ambitions. Some of his photographs of charred ruins of houses and religious places, petrified victims with a stony silence and speaking eyes and an empty grave ready to be filled up have got world wide attention.

This time with the collection of his selected photographs Sahir is all set to take off to express his vision, a vision that desires to judge the world scenario and dreams to transform it in a more humane form.

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