Shadi Ghadirian. Miss Butterfly/2011 White Squar/2009 Nil,Nil/2008 Ctrl+Alt+Del/2006 West by East/2004 Be Colorful/2002 Like EveryDay/2000 My Press Photo/1999 Qajar/1998 Unfocused/1998 NextPrevious. Hassan Hajjaj's rockstar portraits – in pictures | World news. Moroccan rock stars | World news. Hassan Hajjaj's first memories of photography are from his childhood in Morocco. His mother would occasionally dress him in clothes sent from his father in England, cover him in perfume and take the whole family to the local photography studio for a family portrait.
Then there were the street photographers in Larache, the harbour town where he lived until the age of fourteen, "who would take pictures of you on a plastic horse, wearing cowboy hats and so on…" There is a similar colour and spontaneity to My Rockstars: Volume 1, a series of studio portraits Hajjaj has been working on since 1998, exhibited for the first time at The Third Line gallery in Dubai last month. This is only the latest in what has been a busy few years for Hajjaj, exhibiting his work in Europe, Africa and the Middle East: in 2009 his photographs were featured in the Bamako Rencontres Biennale, this year he exhibited work in Riad Yima, a house he designed himself, featured in the Marrakech Biennale.
"I wish I could! " Nermine hammam. V&A Home Page - Victoria and Albert Museum.