peace. thank you for allowing me to share some of my work with you.
my name is seher sikandar ("rehes" is seher spelled backwards. inventive, eh?). i'm a 26-year-old female muslim-pakistani-american that has rocked out to her hyphenated identity on both coasts. i was born in the sf bay and have lived in pakistan, boston, dc, philadelphia, and orange county. i currently work as a marketer in san francisco, where i also live. when i'm not peddling goods or snapping photos, i also write and get down with some photoshop.
please contact me for rates on any of my services.
why i photograph
a powerful photograph can be timeless, creating its own narrative; something new is born with each viewing and emotion somehow becomes palpable. it is my hope to evoke the full range of feeling through the stories of beautiful images, perhaps even create a dialogue.
music is a love of mine - providing me company, comfort, theraphy, peace. i'm often left in a solitary ecstacy from the ethereal spaces it leaves me in. taking concert photos has transformed how i interpret musical performance, creating an incredibly sensory experience for me. the energy, color, and sound that emanates from these images drew me to this natural starting point with my photography.
in time i've also come to appreciate the gripping force of a striking portrait. usually when i think of posed photographs, i cringe at how contrived and stale many of them tend to look. so i started by taking candid photographs - which i love - by sneaking up on family and friends. after viewing some more work and having a few conversations, i finally came to terms that natural and truly artistic portraiture does exist - it just resides in a completely different realm and requires a great deal of thought and care, like anything else.
i love storytelling, in case you can't already tell. documentary photography is what actually actually stole my heart when it comes to photo. it details the streets we live in, the everyday mundanities that we miss, and the parts of human experience that we are blind to or simply forget. often it requires really getting out there, somewhere, and walking around; it takes time. but what a beautiful way to look at life when you do take that time. to date, i've been exploring these details via food and travel photography, as well as a journalistic approach to wedding and event photography.
i am very excited to share that in january 2010, rehes creative studios opened for business in san francisco.
email seher@rehescreative.com