Below are a handful of the hundreds of photographs I took while working on location as documentary photographer, for the TASWIR Exhibition, in Berlin for three months. More than seventy artists from Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Palestine,and many other Arabic countries, Europe and the US too, presented their work in this exhibition alongside selected objects and artefacts of Persian, Arabic and Ottoman provenance. The exhibition was laid out in 18 different rooms. The inner court of the exhibition functioned as an exhibition space within the exhibition where artists were invited to interpret and critically comment on the exhibition, show more of their work in public discussions and in conversation with curators, intellectuals, poets, composers and performance artists from international contexts. The works developed in this context constituted an exhibition of its own. And so it was that I met some truly extraordinary people It was an intensely satisfying project, both in terms of meeting the challenges of capturing the 18 exhibition rooms in a wide-range of lighting conditions and in the experience of being on-call for whatever came up photographically in whatever conditions. Loved it! My work ended up hanging in the constantly evolving exhibition. A truly superb experience.

I lived in Istanbul for two years and fell for that city in a big way. I go back sometimes, continuing my relationship with it ... in awe of it, always.

So many of the photographs I take, capture the love between people. It has happened so often now, that I am creating this gallery for the series titled, so much love.

Sometimes I see beautiful things ...

The angels in Rome were so beautiful that now I look for them everywhere ...