
A band shoot for the group Casual Jazz represented by The Fridge. I found this incredible abandoned park which was overgrown, dusty and unkempt. What a gem! With the sun setting and casting a lovely golden light it was a pleasure shooting this awesome band. You wouldn’t guess this was shot in Dubai! There was [...]

I had the pleasure of shooting the Afif Jazz Quartet at the Blue Bar for the Fridge last weekend . It wasn’t an easy shoot as the lighting conditions are a bit dire at the venue, but it was rewarding to capture these awesome Dubai based musicians performing and enjoying their music. A few selected [...]

The Fridge Concert Series kicked off with the fabulous Afif Brothers with guest Tigran Peshtmajyan on Xylaphone, a renowned Armenian jazz musician. Astighik Artsruni, Armenian vocalist, accompanied a few numbers to the delight of the audience. This was the first concert shoot with my new 70-200mm f2.8 lens and I found it absolutely invaluable in [...]

This shoot was done some time ago in Abu Dhabi for multi-talented musician Mathew Curtis. I wasn’t able to release the images till now, however. Here are some of his selection from the shoot. They were done with speedlights, one behind and snooted as a back-light, and one diffused from the upper right.

I met up with Cool’s the Rule, a jazz band from Abu Dhabi at their regular Friday night gig at the Novotel Abu Dhabi for this shoot. We did a combination of some set portraits and performing shots. It was challenging as the space was quite small and very dimly lit. So I ended up [...]

Wow! What an evening. It was like being transported back to varsity days when I used to follow the Rhodes Big Band around in adoration. The Abu Dhabi big band (from which the Little Big Band comes) must be incredible, judging by the performance of their members last night. Most of them are teachers, so [...]

At the Fridge last week in Jazz heaven with this excellent band, Rony & Elie Afif with visiting Lebanese pianist Georges Kassis. I was enjoying the music too much to remember to take pictures, but managed to get a few shots. Love jazz shots in black and white. A bit of flare fro the stage [...]