Firoze Shakir Street Photographer

In The Beginning Was The Camera

 

Marziya Shakir Shoots

 

from the branches
of my family tree
a fruit
marziya shakir
her camera in chaoots
eyes closed
through
the whispering
silence
of her soul
she shoots
a bare feet blogger
an old man
her off shoot
she is street smart
intelligent
pretty and cute
the world
around me
she loots
she computes
her grand pa
as a model
one of his kind
she recruits
barefeet
no shoes or boots
marziya shakir
2 year  old
pictorial
but poetic
pursuit
you must be born
with music
before
you hold
krishnas flute

Street Angst Shot By Marziya Shakir On Nikon D 80

 

I think Marziya is a more poetic street photographer than me difference lies in the angle of view of her soul and mine and the perspective..

Comment by El Gekko

Excellent shot, indeed!
She got the contrast between the poor guy on the pavement, the girls passing by without reacting (even if one can know why), and the "cynical" commercial window, full of goods, in the rear.

Really good!

Bravo Marziya!


Jean-Marc


Very nice photographs shot by your grand daughter. She has a good sense of capturing the subject. I appreciate her efforts.
 
--Pankaj Sharma

Marziya Checks What She Shot

 

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A good photographer you know not just by what he or she shoits but by body language my Guru  late Prof BW Jatkar would tell me to shoot on one leg and many a times at Murud where we shot the bullock cart races would blind fold me to get used to the darkness within my soul and would ask me to shoot what I had seen before my eyes were shut.


I have imparted the same lessons to Marziya and if you see the above picture you can read MArziyas body language her passion for photography, photography is not just fuc*** F stops or technique it is something reptilian within all coiled up which you release though your astral kundalini...

i dont think Marziya needs to read Fenninger  or Anselm Adams when she reaches that state she will be a hardbound book on photography herself.


I carried Marziya on my waist and shot crowded political rallies , Sufi sandals and some Kids scourging Moharam stuff and I tell you if the two of us shoot the same picture Marziyas would be more poetic than mine..

She is a gifted child and is gift that I hare with all of you , sometimes I think Marziya is more yours than mine..

Every picture she shoots she checks the back , and gives me a smile ..and she will only take my camera after she puts the strap around her neck and she never gets intimidated if the person she is shooting is a hot shot like Marx de Clercq or Jean Paul..she shot them as she shoots the street urchins on the roads.

Hr favorite model, cheap and best is yours truly her grand father .,..she gives a new meaning to every picture she has shot of mine.

And this happens only in India where sometimes the Guru is leaning things from his disciple that his own erstwhile Guru never taught him.

This was a blank post I added text on the soul of photography.

Marziya Shakir Two and A Half Year Old Street Photographer Nikon D80

 

Marziya Shakir will be three year old on 24 November 2010.

She is my grand daughter and she picked up my camera when she was very young first she shot from the bed later she graduated and now shoots beggars on the streets.

She shoots all the eminent world photographers who visit my house in Mumbai.

 

Marziya shoots on Nikon D 80 is a set on my Flickr photostream.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/firozeshakir/sets/72157624568190795/with/4490993180/

Nothing intimidates her when she shoots on the streets not even the huge crowds that surround her while she shoots.

Marziya has Flickr page Facebook page Twitter account and her own website ..and she can shoot life with a blindfold that is how I taught her as her Guru.. and unlearnt photography in the bargain.

Marziyas Site

http://marziyashakir.wordpress.com/