Photographer Noor Ali Honoured
Michel Nieto, Chief Executive Officer of Baume & Mercier and Mohammed Siddiqi, Chief Operating Officer of Ahmed Siddiqi and Sonshave honoured Noor Ali Rashid, the royal photographer of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates for his contributions to photography. With the ceremony ended a six day exhibition of photographers of the Magnum Photo Agency.
Noor Ali Rashid, one of the most famous and prolific photographers the United Arab Emirates has ever known, was born in December 1929. Hailing from the Gwadar province in what was then the Sultanate of Oman, but is now Pakistan, he moved to Dubai in 1958. He started shooting professionally in 1947 for a weekly magazine in Karachi, Pakistan named “Vision” and hasn’t stopped shooting since. 83 plaques and trophies, including one naming him the U.A.E’s Photographer of the Millennium and roughly 20 certificates are testament enough to a storied, photojournalism career that has spanned seven decades in 57 years. It was during these years that he documented the growth of the UAE. Named the “Royal Photographer” by the late former president of the UAE Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, he alone is the official photographer for the Al Nahyan family as well as the Royal families of the seven emirates. It is Noor Ali Rashid’s mission to take his documentary contribution.
Excerpts taken from “Preserving Zayed’s Legacy” by Michael D. Kennedy, Achievers magazine, Fall term 2004-05, Zayed University, U.A.E.
Noor Ali Rashid, one of the most famous and prolific photographers the United Arab Emirates has ever known, was born in December 1929. Hailing from the Gwadar province in what was then the Sultanate of Oman, but is now Pakistan, he moved to Dubai in 1958. He started shooting professionally in 1947 for a weekly magazine in Karachi, Pakistan named “Vision” and hasn’t stopped shooting since. 83 plaques and trophies, including one naming him the U.A.E’s Photographer of the Millennium and roughly 20 certificates are testament enough to a storied, photojournalism career that has spanned seven decades in 57 years. It was during these years that he documented the growth of the UAE. Named the “Royal Photographer” by the late former president of the UAE Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, he alone is the official photographer for the Al Nahyan family as well as the Royal families of the seven emirates. It is Noor Ali Rashid’s mission to take his documentary contribution.
Excerpts taken from “Preserving Zayed’s Legacy” by Michael D. Kennedy, Achievers magazine, Fall term 2004-05, Zayed University, U.A.E.
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