| KHAWAR RIAZ |
"Every face is beautiful to me. I transform the girl next door into a smiling Mona Lisa and the ordinary looking bloke into David of Michael Angelo. The play of light and the mystery of sexuality appeals to me. My images are more like paused scenes of a movie than a portrait. It's my passion to capture faces with the richness of expressions. In this world of commercialization where beautiful female faces sell, male figures facinate me more. Aesthetically, i feel men are more beautiful then women. Their nuances, muscles and forms affect and attract me as a photographer. I would describe my images as exotic and erotic........and yes, they do arouse certain passions"
"Institutions and systems stifled me, they never appealed to my aesthetic senses. I would either examining the symmetry of nature or visualising Tarzan. I fled from the prison and set out to discover myself. The study of life and people was my real education. Technically, I think I an a total fraud, but the fewer options one has, the better the utilization of equipment and thus the visual. I have a natural sense of design which has lent my images a sense of spacing, balance and composition"
"I have introduced many new faces who are now in the cadre of top models - Umair Butt, Umar Latif, Wafa, Vaneeza, Amir Saeed, Effee..........I want to transform the faces in our film industry so they will be remembered even fifty years from now. Just like Marilyn Monroe is etched in the minds of people"
"I praise my own work very much. I don't care whether people like that or not - bcause it expresses my feelings. Most designers and photographers in this country are very insecure about their work which is why they are always involved in politics. Besides photography, I experiment in the techniques of make-up. I design my own clothes and sometimes for friends too. My calling or direction of life? No idea!!"










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