Racism is not Photography
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Guest
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 12:06 pm
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Just registered this morning but i have been a subscriber of BP since many years.
My gurus are KG Maheshwari, Prof B W Jatkar , Shreekanth Malushte and the man of all seasons the Maha Guru Girish Mistry.
I was a salon photographer member of PSI Mumbai, FIP, IIPC, NIPP, but I gave up all this for Photo Blogging..
my website..
www.photographerno1.com 8240 files 6 lac hits in two years.
www.flickr.com/photos/firozeshakir/ 11755 photoblogs in 2 months
photographerno1.wordpress.com
photographerno1.blogspot.com
firozeshakir.blogspot.com
firozekumbhmela.blogspot.com
I shoot eunuchs hijdas transgenders live with naga sadhus, aghoris, practice shiasm, shoot pictures of all religion without bias..
I am a poet who is at poemhunter.com fighting against racism in poetry.
Thought you guys should know the rest is scattered on the internet..The Indian Pilgrims Progress..
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Panditji
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 3:34 pm
Joined: 27 Oct 2006
Posts: 130
Hi! Firoz , I think that is your name . It is a nice name - short and easy
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ani
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:11 pm
Joined: 22 Jun 2006
Posts: 391
welcome to BP foum!
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mcliu
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:28 pm
Joined: 31 May 2007
Posts: 314
Welcome Firoj
You have a "Dhamaal" Ka entry And given us a " Dhassu" introductions.Almost all the biggee names is thrown at us. We are humbled
Now I do request you to post your "Zhakas" picture here. So we all can admire your piece of work
Liu
Me
I am grateful to all of you Panditji , Mcliu Ani for accepting me as your own, I am not here to blow my trumpet I shoot Life as I see it.. there is nothing Jhakas but love for each other irrespective of caste color and creed what I am is in my Photo Blog,..my style of photography is based on Yogic Kundalini uncoiling the serpent before hitting the trigger.. I shoot on one leg and with my eyes closed..
Thank you all.
gopal
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:50 am
Joined: 22 Mar 2007
Posts: 174
oh great guy,
great introduction. u are an extrovert person what i felt from yr sayings and sites above.
Respected shri k g maheshwari and prof b w jatkar regularly sent their entries when i conducted 4 all india salons few yrs back.
i met respected shrikantji many yrs back, when i joined JJ School of Arts.
when i read feroz, the thoughts came to me of famous feroz rangoonwala.
anyhow, i welcome u to bp forum (what i noticed, blogging is not here). we view each others photographs and appreciate their efforts. so since u introduced yrself as photographer no.1, with all respects to yr personality, looking forward to see yr work, particularly on glamour. best of luck dear feroz. it will be pleasure for me to see yr sites.
gopal
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:24 am
Joined: 22 Mar 2007
Posts: 174
dear feroz,
read yr posts/blogs, and i am sorry to notice the treatment given to u as shia or muslim. there are ultras in every religion, but i appreciate yr spirit for keeping yr morale high.
no doubt u are a voracious /reader/writer, and yr keyboard runs more than fast, it is again pleasing that u are interested in poetry-which is also my favourites
"woh aaye hamare forum mein, khuda ki kudrat,
kabhi ham unko aur kabhi forum ko dekhte hain.".
personalities like u are rare, and i feel that u will leave a great legacy for the posterity. i and my friends do have respect for yr courage for bearing so much tension and traumas. but what i feel, yr interests in these arts kept u going nonchalantly. forget about religion-we all are bhartiya (not anil bhartiya-a good gentleman).
me
Brother Gopal thank you for your encouraging words , and I am Indian ,and also a member of Mr Anil Bhrtiyas NAPP ,I learnt a lot from him , on trips to Murud to shoot the Bullock Cart race , or to Malshej Ghats, he is the only photographer teacher who teaches through field trips at grass root levels, and most of the photography courses even taught in BMM still adhere to the old school , no changes, no crusader to bring in change.
Photography is big bucks , everybody wants glamour glitz and money.Teachers like Mitter Bedi, Unwallah, Bhardwaj, Phanibanda are are all dead and gne who taught photography once they clamoured and gathered at Photographic Society of India 70 years back, today Photography in camera clubs is about politics, I distanced myself from this state of affairs.
Girish Mistry teaches photography with a pssion and is most respected and revered..but his knowledge comes with a price , but worth it .I learnt my basics with Mr Shreekanth Malushte.. a sincere teacher.
Later through his efforts I became a life member Photographic Society of India Mumbai, and met mu other two Gurus Mr KG Maheshwari whom we call Dronacharya and Black and White Jatkar.Prof Jatkar is the master of monochrome and nudes.
So the most important the core ingredient in Indian Photography is finding a good Guru touching his Feat ..this is called Guru Parampara.. Without Guru there is no Gyan..
This s why we are more powerfully visually stronger and better entrenched than the foreigm Institute learned photographer of the West.
I have another Guru he is a 18 year old American boy from California called Tom, or doyoulike it, I call him my American Guru, he is the finest photographer..
There is another photographer whose work on India is prolific and realistic.. Dr Glenn Losack MD
www.glennlosackmd.com/-/glennlosackmd/
Well I will shed light later on Tom, and pictures of Dr Glen Losack you must study , this is the way into the heart of photography.
Photography is shooting and sharing pictures, but Photo Blogging is sharing Life , adding Life to where no Life existed..
So thank you Gopal.. I am just getting a hang here at BP Forum..
I consider Photo Blogging a a spiritual endeavor as a photographer I may be a part of a religiosity but as a Photo Blogger I am beyond all this flowing in the human stream of a superior consciousness...
I am Hindu I am Muslim but I am two sides of the same coin called India.
sujit_n
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:03 pm
Joined: 09 Nov 2005
Posts: 163
Firoze,
It is really inspiring to know about your philosophy. Great interprtation of life & photography. You must believe that every people has some hidden intention, who tries to nourish it,few get success, few ....
When we come to know or meet people who always put thrust to fulfill his hidden intention which is not for earning money, fame, clout, we create a barrier arround that man or woman. We never compare him/her with others. I feel you are a guy like that.
Welcome in this FORUM.
Sujit
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:55 pm
Me
Thank yoy Sujit for your hospitality and kindness , and its really nice to know that we bond and our love for photgraphy brings us closer , with pictures we share, I thank not just you but all of you who have responded to me Panditji, Mcliu Ani Gopal and the rest ..those that have read me too, I am not aware of the code of posting etiquette here, so please forgive me for any unintentional lapse on my part, I am an incorrigible photo blogger , words are my birthright and I use them as a pictoral metaphor ..my path to unlearning photography.
Firoze Shakir..
Me
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:52 am
Hi Forum If anyBP Forum member needs guidance in Photo Blogging , or any query in this regard dont hesitate to write me.
People who want to share a unique community of photographers, the short cut is a Photo Blog..
Some of the interesting Photo Blogging site with emphasis on social net working too are
Buzznet
For the serious Blogger
Bloggerspot
Word Press
For the Foto Freak
Flickr
Ipernity
Blogging may net earnyou big bucks but it gives you a karmic release if you have the zing in you, and if you dont have you develop it, I never wrote a single word , never an article nor any poem..it all happened through Photo Blogging 24 months back..
I rarely post atBuzznet where I am known as Shiathugno1, but it is to Buzznet I owe the development of my psyche ...good friends and outstanding photographers who bought me this far adding the necessary shape to my personality..as an Indian beware Racism exiss but hit back..
dont be scared we Indians have one grand advantage we were born talented by default..thank you India.
shiathugno1.buzznet.com
Admin
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:13 am
Joined: 09 Nov 2005
Posts: 36
Dear Firoze,
Your posts are really interesting and we can see the response you have been receiving on this forum. Thank you for bringing in a new dimension to the forum.
A request: All of your new posts are being posted in the "Who's Who" category, which is primarily for first time introductions. Since your posts are blog-like accompanied by pictures - we would request you to post them in relevant sections like "General Discussions" or "Daily Life" (if your discussions stem from a Daily Life photograph).
Thanks.
Happy Shooting
- Admin
Me
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 12:58 pm
Thank You Administration Better Photography
My relationship with BP goes a very long way back, I would visit your offices I remember and bond with your enthusiastic journos and stafff..
Its just that after I moved away , from analogue photography and gave my soul to the Photo bLog, I realised I had begun to Unlearn Photography. and break the myth created by Times of India blue eyed boy Shobhan Saxena that Photo Bloggers are photographers with a mission of Peace, not failed writers, and murderers, or crazies as suggested each time and each Sunday they write an obitury for the death of the Blog.. but God is kind to Blogges and keeps extending their shelf life.Recently at PSI Mumbai Annual Day where your ex editor Hoshang was the Chief Guest I posed a question about blogging he just looked at me with a vacncy in his eyes.. well Blogging is beyond Smart Photograpy I kept this opinion to myself..Photographers are seduced by the idea of minting money they want to be glitzy, shoot celebs , so hardly any camera club talks about blogging..and Blogging has not even come of age in India.. Sulekha Blogs Rediff are just crappy copywriters at a Brhamanic spiel like crabs in a bottle.. I was blocked at Sulekha Blogs called a confused Muslim all because I posted 600 blogs in three days..and scared the veterans of a tsunami in the offing..racism exists among us Indians too and more strongly here than the West..Indians dont like Indians very much..
At Word Press I posted over 500 blogs in a single day..so this is the passion of blogging..I hope to learn from all of you also, and thanks I find your forum an excellent place that nurtures human goodwill.. I am a bit confused about the format here , thanks for the tip, deleting a post should be made simpler even editing too..
As ever
Firoze Shakir
photographerno1
Mumbai..
Me
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:07 pm
Sakthivel wrote:
Welcome.
thank you sakthivel for adding me asa contact on flickr .. my flickr site had a lot of crazies and porn artists adding me so I have become more careful, also my pictures because of frontal nudity and bloody images of moharam fall under moderate category, you have to be a flickr member to see my images close to 12000 posted in two and a half month..but you can see the same on Wordpress.. without any problem.
you cannot comment on my pictures if you are not my contact, as there are many Shia baters that have gone abusive and personal intheir religious fundamental attacks on me .
I am a critic of Jehadi Terrorism and Radical Islam..
My flickr pictures are all large files about 4mb each..
Hijdas Transgenders, naga sadhus body piercers ..
Take Care..
Firoze Shakir
Photographerno1
noni
Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 10:38 pm
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
Posts: 75
Hi Firoze,
welcome to forum.As for as i know u can't delete or edit ur post once it is posted.Yes it can be edited in preview mode.Your posted photographs will be deleted if u delete it from original site e.g.flickr.com etc...noni.
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Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:05 pm
Me
Thank You Noni , I think any website or a forum should be blogger friendly simple and easily understandable, whether a veteran or an amateur should get the hang of it, and edit and delete are very important aspects to control content that goes off hand sometimes.. but I have no complaints my problem is I am a severe diabetic I type with one finger of an injured hand I have diminishing eyesight so I make typo errors that really look bad after posting..and inspite of being a blogger fr two years I am not at all web or net savvy
After this Panditji and his cronies sharpened their knives to circumcise the Soul of a Muslim Blogger..I wish I had
copied all the Hate comments that came because I lashed out at a dickhead called sobodheepghosh for his derogatory comment on one of my post..that was the beginning of my end .
All these faces that welcomed me to the Better Photo graphy Forum ganged up against me the most vicious the Rogue Pandit
the head of the Muslim hating gang..
I am greatful that Better Photography Adminsitration dealt with this matterjudiciously fairly without any bias
and with respect of human sentiments.
My relationship with Better Photography shall continue..
I will make public the racism in photography that existing the Forum that has been usurped by vested interests., all wearing masks of hate , they welcome newcomers than if you falter or rub any one of them they will make your life unbearable..
Like this vicious Panditji who said if Firoze does not leave I will leave the Forum..
This devious man , Muslim hater, and he cannot deny all this, he hated me from day one realising that his popularity was going to take a beating.
I have no ulterior motive or agenda but to warn others of the duplicity of these hate filled members.,.
Gopal said bloggers are not allowed to the forum vociferously as though he owns the forum..
this despicable lot of , they perhaps were shocked that this Shia Muslim, is an Indian does not wear a goatee or a skull cap..
and perhaps yes as panditji said I am a Bombast, yes but shit head your father did not pay for my education, and I had a more cosmopolitan and Hindu loving upbringing than you..as a Hindu born could ever dream of Messiah of Racist Hate ..
The Kumbh is over long live the Kumbh on Flickr ..
YES I AM A SHIA PANDIT
I DONT NEED THE SAFETY OF A POISONOUS BOTTLE AND END UP A CRAB LIKE YOU
I REITERATE INDIANS ARE THE BIGGER RACISTS..
INDIANS HATE INDIANS
Firoze Shakir
Photographer No1
