"Avec la liberté de celui que la culture n'a pas entièrment englouti, le vagabond de la musique ramasse le morceau de verre qu'il trouve sur la route et le tend vers le soleil pour en faire jaillir milles couleurs"
- Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
"I know you're a quiet workman on God's eternal construction site and don't like hearing about demolition, but what can I do? Myself, I'm not one of God's bricklayers. Besides, if God's bricklayers built real walls, I doubt we'd be able to demolish them. But instead of walls all I see is stage sets. And stage sets are made to be demolished."
- Milan Kundera
"today, without even knowing it, I ceased to be a person when a man I had never met looked straight through me and saw the violence in his own heart."
- Kazim Ali
"Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs. As a matter of fact nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for the love of it, and not merely for financial reasons. As the name implies, an amateur is one who works for love; and viewed in this light the incorrectness of the popular classification is readily apparent."
- A. Stieglitz
"Morphologically speaking, men represent an intermediary stage between monkeys and great edifices"
-Georges Bataille
"you're as black as MJ... yeah that's about exactly right"
-Holly Clark
- JoinedOctober 2004
- OccupationArchitect
- HometownRabat, Morocco
- Current cityChicago, IL
- CountryUSA
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His self portraits are amazing..and so unique! He has humor and true skills in photography! Keep up the great work, love your stuff! A
takes grate photos but swears to much. shame
"Wow-what a wonderful surprise! AB's photos are like a travel adventure. The shots are are very unique-one minute you are in a the very dark contrast that shadows his portraits and the next minute your in a bright beautiful space I think the site is more like a photo journey. It is one I have enjoyed taking and will co… Read more
"Wow-what a wonderful surprise! AB's photos are like a travel adventure. The shots are are very unique-one minute you are in a the very dark contrast that shadows his portraits and the next minute your in a bright beautiful space I think the site is more like a photo journey. It is one I have enjoyed taking and will continue to come back for the ride. A super image trip!"
Read lesshe`s sharp as fuck, and the quality and tecnique he uses is createful, and original... but this boi really nows how to do the contrast thingy... thanks for showing!
smarty pants bad boy amazing brush strokes so glad to have found his work.
i just got done watching all your photos on 1 sec. slide show and i really was touched by the amount of emotion, struggle, strength, passion, intensity, beauty, humor, reality that there is in YOU.
Great series of self-portraits, a morbid art case of story-telling images which will always be remembered..good job fadel..
A maker of images as dark and sweet and heart-palpitating as black coffee with three sugars and a pack of unfiltered cigarettes.
the expressiveness and emotion in am's work, whether his dramatic photos, delicate caligraphy, or powerful ps-edits, is always present. his comments are valuable (and valued by Me) - definitely recommended
it's always a pleasure to meet someone like Fadil...it's typical Lawrence carma...i've got more in common with this cat than we both will ever know, and the guy's heart is HUGH....keep it RAW homie.....I luv your style!!!!!!!
to sum it up... HE KICKS ASS!!! (literally)
ok...what can i say about this man? well, i can say this: his buddy icon strangely resembles an arab hunter s. thompson. but that's hot. fadil: a shy guy with a big heart.
