Interviews

Interviews with various Muslim photographers.
The chat, the person, the inside story of how they got where they are and the problems and achievements faced in the every day of a muslim photographer.

Interview With Nina Muehe

April 9, 2011
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Interview With Nina Muehe

Young, of German background, a cultural anthropologist and an enthusiastic convert to Islam. Currently working within an EU-project on Tolerance called “ACCEPT Pluralism” for the university Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) near to Berlin. She is currently busy preparing for her PHD in the field of Muslims in Germany. Over the last years she has been working as a freelance researcher for the Open Society Foundations in London within the project called “At Home in Europe – Muslims in EU Cities”. She has previously contributed a study on Muslims in Berlin, which you can find here: BERLIN MUSLIMS. She is also a trainer for religious diversity, a homeopath and a free time hobby photographer. As a child she had chosen and grown with Christianity as a religion, because her parents had left it open for her to chose. Since then she has always been searching to get closer to God and to find her own own spiritual path. In the end of her studies as cultural anthropologist she went to Guinea for about a year, where she lived with a Muslim family. Both the family’s hospitality and spirituality, (which was lived in everyday life by each member of the family...

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Interview With Djamel Haraigue

March 21, 2011
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Interview With Djamel Haraigue

His roots are from Algeria and is married Alhamdulillah and has two daughters aged 8 and 4 Mashallah. He is a Paris-based interior architect but has always longed to be a photographer. Having a constant desire to illustrate how he sees the world his camera has become his paintbrush and canvas. To hear that his work brings joy to others makes him feel quite blessed. “What more can an artist hope for?” he states, and rightly so. He points out that “once a  famous architect had said that “God is in the details” (attributed to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)”, and we believe he currently carries this idea into his current photography. He believes that some things are obvious, and are just begging to be photographed, whilst others are not so obvious.  He has taken a numerous amounts of pictures, subjects posing from: faces; streets; landscape; and skies, etc.  He states that the feedback on them has been very positive, Alhamdulillah. “Everyone likes the composition, the bigger, larger then life picture, including me. But then there are the small unnoticed details such as: that hidden moment; and the stolen glance. Those are the things I’m always looking for… …and sometimes, when...

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Interview with Karen Ali

March 6, 2011
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Interview with Karen Ali

Born in Norway, educated some in the United States moving over to Bangladesh and staying for 15 years where she raised 5 children. Now residing back in Norway she occasionally writes for a newspaper relating to foreigners residing in Norway. She has also been published in Bangladesh where she wrote about people suffering with AIDS. She has had 3 exhibitions of her photographic works: all of  which displayed photos of the people and children from the slums of Bangladesh and one exhibition having either a short hadeeth or surah relating to poor and charity atop of each photograph. Currently studying Management as well as working at a shelter in Norway and her past experiences in working  slums of Bangladesh has certainly put her Bachelor Degree in Social Work  to good use. Journalist by nature, Humanitarian at heart, and a Realist thinker, she started to learn about Islam back in the USA when she was a student and later accepted Islam in Bangladesh. Stating that she has adapted her life to Islam rather than trying to adapt Islam to her life “as many Muslims try to do here in the west”. Taking up photography as a means to record the people and places that she visited and...

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