Fazal Sheikh
born in New York City, 1965, Fazal Sheikh lives in Zürich. Sheikh received his BA at Princeton university. A photographer and a writer, Fazal Sheikh’s long-term projects have focused on Kenya/Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan and, most recently, India. Sheikh has published five major monographs: Moksha (Steidl, Göttingen, 2005); Ramadan Moon, International Human Rights Series, Volume 2, 2001; A Camel for the Son, International Human Rights Series, Volume 1, 2001; The Victor Weeps, Afghanistan (SCALO, Zurich-Berlin-New York, 1998); A Sense of Common Ground (SCALO, Zurich-Berlin-New York, 1996). Selected solo exhibitions include The United Nations, New York City (2004); Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2004); Museum of Fine Arts, Orleans, France (2003); Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York City (2002); Scalo Project Space, New York City (2002); Rosenberg Church, Winterthur, Switzerland (2002); Helmhaus Museum, Zurich, Switzerland (2001); The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois (2000); American University of Beirut, Lebanon (2000); Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (1999); Netherlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (1997); United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva, Switzerland (1997); International Center of Photography, New York City (1996). Selected recent group exhibitions include: Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC (2004), Staging the Self in African Photography, Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Capetown, South Africa (2004); Cruel and Tender, The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (2003); Regarding War, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City (2003), Transfer, BildMuseet, Umeå university, Sweden (2001). Among selected awards are found: The Cartier-Bresson Award (2005), Rencontres d’Arles, Le Prix Dialogue de l\'Humanité (2003), Leica Medal of Excellence (1995), Infinity Award, International Center of Photography; Mother Jones International Documentary Award (1995). Fazal Sheikh’s photographs are found in public collections in Africa, Europa and North-America. www.fazalsheikh.org
