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I am currently working in the music and film industry and at BBC on freelance base. I studied photography at the London Institute. I was festival photographer for the 1996 London Jazz Festival. My work has been featured on the covers of Blues & Soul magazine, The Guardian, The Times, the Mirror, GQ, Mojo, Scotland on Sunday and ES.
Currently working to capture images of black role models in mainstream culture. Previously commissioned by: Chris Ofili – the Artist, Comme Des Garcons – Fashion House, David Adjaye, Polydor, BMG, EMI, Universal, MCA Warner, Doom, Virgin, and Sony Records. I have 20 images in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery from my ongoing untitled f2.8 at 15th / Role Models. Twenty images from this ongoing portfolio are in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
My work has been exhibited at the Fitzwilliam Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, Greater London Authority and City Hall, at “7eme Bamako Biennale Re-encounters Africans Photography” in Mali, Germany (Berlin, Stuttgart, Hamburg), Morocco (Fez) and Spain (Barcelona).
I have led photographic workshops at Pyramid Youth Development Project and FBMF, for the National Portrait Gallery’s Education Department ‘Circling The Square’, about the history of Trafalgar Square and ‘Local Heroes’ about the 9/11 incident in 2001 (featured in Vanity Fair Magazine, 2002).
Famous for the Wrong Reasons marks an important development in my work. The project incorporates high quality photographic images and a strategy to address one of London’s key social problems. Through the project I hope to develop my artistic practice and instigate a nationally significant event.
Work in Public and Private Collections:
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, David Adjaye Associations, Duncan Robinson, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Horace Ove, Isaac Julian, Lady Sue Woodford Hollick, Ozwal Boateng, Maxim (The Prodigy), 20 images in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London, Rt. Rev. Dr John Sentamu Archbishop of York.
Sal Idriss
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