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A narrow canal in autumn, the still water mirroring the trees and tall houses that line both banks

CapturingLight & Soul

Hashim Mahmood — Visual Storyteller & Photographer

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Specialisms

Street, Architecture, Cityscape, Documentary

Statement

I photograph the quiet moment just after the pose breaks — the breath, the half-smile, the hand that forgets it is being watched. Light does the describing; I only decide when to stop it. Every frame I make is an argument that the ordinary, seen properly, is worth keeping.

Selected Work

4 projects

About

I photograph cities at street level.Buildings met from the pavement rather than the brochure, a high street under steady rain, the hour when a canal stops being water and becomes a mirror.Mostly on foot, mostly alone, and mostly waiting for the weather to commit to something.I work in small numbers. Eleven frames that mean something beat six hundred that do not.

Gallery

Showing 11 photographs.

Services

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Process

  1. Step 01

    Consult

    We talk before anything is booked — what the pictures are for, who they are for, and what you want them to feel like. Usually a call and a few reference images.

  2. Step 02

    Plan

    I come back with a treatment: locations, light, a shot list, and a schedule built around the hour the light is right rather than the hour that is convenient.

  3. Step 03

    Shoot

    On the day I work quietly and keep the set small. You will be directed when it helps and left alone when it does not.

  4. Step 04

    Deliver

    A first edit within ten days, a gallery of finished frames within three weeks, and full usage rights for everything you have commissioned.

Clients and publications

Atelier Nine, Northwind Journal, Maison Clair, The Lantern Review, Oak & Ash, Verdant Press, Studio Halcyon, Meridian Quarterly

Let’s create something timeless

studio@hashimmahmood.com+44 20 7946 0813London, United Kingdom