Journey of an artist.

Byline: Peerzada Salman

KARACHI -- Arif Mahmood is a seasoned photographer. In fact, it's not right to categorise him as such - he is an artist. Who is an artist? Answer: someone who depicts life and its myriads of mysteries with an 'enduring artistic quality'.

Anyone who has followed Arif's journey, and it's a pretty long one, will endorse the claim that his black and white photography is no lesser in artistic merit than a painting or a piece of sculpture that seeks to capture a moment in time with its temporal and metaphysical manifestations.

His latest exhibition of works titled Pestonjee/Silver Linings that can be seen at the Canvas Art Gallery is, in a manner of speaking, an extension of his ongoing work, part of his oeuvre. The show, which will conclude on March 4, has two sections.

The first is about an old Parsi man, someone he started taking pictures of in 2013 and carried on doing until 2020. It is evident from the images that Arif is highlighting multiple things and trying to save them for posterity without losing out on its aesthetic...

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