Javed Jafferji
Javed Jafferji is a professional
photographer living in Zanzibar. He has lived in Tanzania, Pakistan and
the UK, where he studied Photography, TV and Film at Paddington College
and Salisbury College of Art & Design. He has been involved with
several books about Zanzibar: Zanzibar Guide, Historical Zanzibar -
Romance of the Ages, Zanzibar Stone Town-An Architectural Exploration,
Images of Zanzibar, Taste of Zanzibar, Tanzania - African Eden,
Zanzibar Style, Zanzibar Style Recipes, Safari Living and safari
Living Recipes. His company has also published other books such as
Doors of Zanzibar, Zanzibar- A Plan for Historic Stone Town, Zanzibar
Map, Memoirs of Arabian Princess from Zanzibar, calendars, address
books, posters and postcards of Zanzibar and mainland Tanzania. He is
currently working on a new book entitled " Swahili Style", which will
be published by 2004.
Javed works as a
freelance photographer and his work has been featured in many top
international publications such as Newsweek, Sunday Times, Independent,
Guardian, and other newspaper and magazines worldwide. This site also
utilizes a number of Javed's photos.
He also
held an exhibition at the Commonwealth Institute entitled 'Zingadi Ke
Rang' (Colours of Life) on Pakistan in London, and Ímages of the
Swahili Coast' at the Goethe Institute in Dar es Salaam and at the
Palace Museum in Zanzibar. He also curated an exhibition of historical
photographs of Zanzibar in Paris at Le Bon Marche in 1999. Also had
various exhibitions in Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar in the last couple of
years.
He is also a publisher of The Swahili
Coast, an international travel magazine promoting coastal eco-tourism
in Tanzania, published by his company Zanzibar Gallery Publishers.
Beside that he publishes a yearly Travel and Tourism Directory, which
is published in association with Tanzania Confederation of Tourism and
its members
Besides Photography, he manages
'Zanzibar Gallery', a combination of curio shop, book shop, art gallery
and boutique, situated in Shangani, in the heart of Zanzibar's Stone
Town.
Contact details:
E-mail
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Tel + 255 24 2232244; Mobile + 255 747 411128
Fax + 255 24 2236583
170 Gizenga Street, PO Box 3181, Zanzibar Stone Town, Tanzania.
