Ayesha Khan

AYESHA KHAN
(released on Ffoton's 'Watchlist' series of shorter conversations with emerging talent 13 November 2019)
AYESHA KHAN'S WORK TARGETS THE REPRESENTATION AND, MORE SPECIFICALLY, MISREPRESENTATION OF MUSLIM WOMEN WITHIN MEDIA AND WIDER UK SOCIETY.
Half-Welsh and half-Pakistani, Ayesha studied photography at the University of South Wales and quickly found a need to address the lack of positivity of Muslim women choosing to wear traditional dress and seek out confident and assertive women for her own projects.
Her 'Standing Up' series was shown as part of the 2019 Diffusion festival in Cardiff in the Phrame Collective exhibition (of which she is a member) and also in the Senedd in Cardiff Bay.
Our thanks to photographer, musician and artist Ani Saunders for agreeing to speak to Ayesha for this recording. Follow her on Twitter @ani_glass
You can view a range of Ayesha's work on her website mwmuslimwomen4. wixsite.com/projects
And her feed on Instagram @mwmuslimwomen
Images © Ayesha Khan and used on Ffoton with permission
Banner/Portrait image © Arran
Podcast images © Brian Carroll
Please note: Comments or views made by interview participants are their own and are NOT necessarily the views of the Ffoton Wales team.
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