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altamashu ♂️ [1875289] [2005-09-05 23:21:21 +0000 UTC] "The Vast Expanse...." (United Arab Emirates)

# Statistics

Favourites: 764; Deviations: 268; Watchers: 135

Watching: 94; Pageviews: 29318; Comments Made: 2686; Friends: 94

# Interests

Favorite visual artist: too many !
Favorite movies: Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, The big Lebowski, and hundreds more....
Favorite TV shows: 6 feet under, Deadwood, Breaking Bad, Rome and many more !
Favorite bands / musical artists: Radiohead,tool,Portishead,NiN,A perfect Circle and alot more
Favorite books: Many !
Favorite writers: Orwell,Anne Rice, Huxley, Sagan,Kundera
Favorite games: HALO, MW series, Black ops MW3 etc. God of war series
Favorite gaming platform: x-box and ps3
Tools of the Trade: 5D Mark II -Minolta Maxxum 5 SLR/Minolta digital SLR 5D/Holga/canon 5D,Gopro
Other Interests: dream,daydream,imagine,speculate,ponder,wonder and just lazing around.

# About me

Altamash Urooj is a Pakistani/Venezuelan award winning art photographer. Born in 1984, he grew up in Karachi and moved to Dubai in 2004 to pursue his bachelors in fine arts. A graduate from the American University in Dubai with a BFA in photography, he divides his time between art and commercial photography.




Altamash has exhibited works in prestigious spaces like The Empty Quarter, Art Space, Ayyam Gallery and Meem Gallery. His work has also travelled to the University of Arizona in Tuscon (2006) and the School of Visual Art gallery in New York (2009) as part of the Basically Human collective.




Altamash is one of the winners of the Shiekha Manal's Young Artists Award 2009 and of the Meem Gallery student exhibition 2008. He is a prominent artist in the Basically Human collective. Altamash is a founding member of the A106 collective and works with photography, video art, performance art, installation work and stop motion photography.

# Comments

Comments: 29

Amux [2012-04-22 21:56:48 +0000 UTC]

hey!!
I have used a few of your vast expanse images in my interior design art muesum project. I have mentioned your name within the project brief.
hope thats ok

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altamashu In reply to Amux [2012-04-26 14:12:25 +0000 UTC]

Hi, can I see your project ?

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Amux In reply to altamashu [2012-05-15 11:44:43 +0000 UTC]

hello. yes Indeed. I will show it right away.
I am sorry for the delay, wasn't around much. I graduated!

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Amux In reply to Amux [2012-04-23 06:19:03 +0000 UTC]

its for uni work!!

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neghab [2011-12-29 17:58:24 +0000 UTC]

Awesome galley man

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altamashu In reply to neghab [2012-01-11 17:49:07 +0000 UTC]

Thank you !

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Amux [2011-11-16 18:09:04 +0000 UTC]

many many congrats for the DD! very happy for you

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altamashu In reply to Amux [2012-01-11 17:49:19 +0000 UTC]

thanks !!!

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Tsukiiyo [2011-11-16 13:02:29 +0000 UTC]

I love what you do.
I invite you to join our group [link] who would be really happy to find you there!

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DanteDaimonion [2011-11-16 11:38:26 +0000 UTC]

I adore your works - they are rellay great.

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altamashu In reply to DanteDaimonion [2012-01-11 17:50:01 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much for your kind words !

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Cimazzam [2011-04-18 13:36:41 +0000 UTC]

Hey hey...


I'm loving this muro thing ! it's awesome...

i got a bit carried away ! reminds of that lame Paint program on Windows !

xx
deviantART muro drawing

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feef666 [2011-04-07 10:12:00 +0000 UTC]

hey

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hayzin [2011-02-02 04:30:23 +0000 UTC]

Sup smAlto! Good to hear from you after so long. Thanks for the comments!

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altamashu In reply to hayzin [2011-02-04 21:13:19 +0000 UTC]

Ya man I had been away from deviant for a while..slowly getting back into it. Will upload alot of my commercial stuff soon enough cuz thats all ive been doing !
Hope you are well in Isloo man

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hayzin In reply to altamashu [2011-02-07 04:02:24 +0000 UTC]

Great, great.
Yeah Islamabad is ok. Boring but ok.
I'm nearing the completion of my house. Been constructing it since May 2010.
So that and work takes up a lot of my time these days. Let me know if you're ever up here
in the hill billy suburbs!

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najiat [2011-01-27 12:57:35 +0000 UTC]

thanks for adding alto!!

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SyedaSairaNaqvi [2010-12-05 09:24:00 +0000 UTC]

SALAM
ap k gellery bht ache hai

plz visti to my gellery and comments,thx

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lil0 [2010-01-18 11:19:17 +0000 UTC]

Really nice gallery!

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altamashu In reply to lil0 [2010-01-18 12:21:50 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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dartalha [2009-10-25 17:12:01 +0000 UTC]

Hey..

I just wanted to let you know, that I am using your this image [link] for my charity organization website i.e HLHC.org .

Please let me know, if you have any issues regarding the usage of the picture.

Regards
Talha

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altamashu In reply to dartalha [2010-07-08 10:50:02 +0000 UTC]

I cant really stop you from stealing images, but did you have to squish the photograph like that ? It does it no justice !

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TheQine [2009-09-06 00:06:06 +0000 UTC]

Thank you thank you THANK YOU, for completely and utterly blowing my mind to a thousands bits and pieces!!

You've truly inspired the hell out of me mate! Mind sharing with me what it is that fuels your machine of divine inspiration?!

Ramadanak kareem, and may your every pixel shine with the brilliance of a super nova.

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priverendezvous [2009-05-28 19:46:53 +0000 UTC]

Your stuff really fascinates me because it piques my interest. IT's quite impressive, because im not ever really sure at how you do it.

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discontentbeauty [2008-12-20 05:29:02 +0000 UTC]

I featured your work!

[link]

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MyMetaverse [2008-10-29 00:04:57 +0000 UTC]

Hey there!
You've been featured here
Hope you don't mind

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yoursunrise [2008-07-09 11:47:11 +0000 UTC]

You've been featured in an article called "You've been featured in an article called "Hippie guys are so sexy."! [link]

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onnosoul [2007-11-09 13:24:08 +0000 UTC]

you got a nice gallery

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Vampirella87 [2007-08-25 09:30:43 +0000 UTC]

Hidden by Owner

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altamashu In reply to Vampirella87 [2007-08-29 08:03:32 +0000 UTC]

Well Hullo!

Im allright, what about you?!?

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