Tariq Dajani fine art photographer and printmaker

ABOUT ME

Born in England to a Palestinian father and an English mother, I spent much of my life moving between different countries in Europe and the Middle East. This gave me an appreciation and an understanding of different peoples and cultures, which I feel is reflected in how I view and relate to this diverse world.

I learned my photographic craft during time in London, Stockholm and Dubai, working on both personal art projects for exhibition and for advertising and design agencies. Over the years I gradually found a style that I felt comfortable with, which spoke with the truth and emotion that I was seeking.

My art works have been widely exhibited and are included in several private art collections, including those of the Agha Khan, Bernard Arnault, the Hermes family, the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) USA, and members of Royal families in the Middle East and elsewhere.

I now live on a rural, organic farm in Galicia, north-western Spain, with my wife, and our family of Arabian horses and Saluki dogs. I continue to pursue new art projects and to exhibit regularly. I also teach photography and photogravure printmaking (photo-etching) courses in my 100-year old farmhouse studio.

WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID

"There is a strange-making in much of Dajani’s work, a way of making perfectly ordinary things seem quite strange and extraordinary. Such work leaves the viewer feeling touched, moved, disturbed - leaves him or her with a whole complex of emotions and desperately wanting to know more. Most of my wondering is about Dajani’s falcons. I have never seen stranger or more beautiful photographs of birds than his."

John Wood, poet, photographic historian & editor

“Tariq Dajani is a photographer and printmaker. He is mostly known for his poetic portrait studies of the purebred Arabian horse and the hunting falcon. Beautifully observed and mastered, the work displays intellectual depth and classical realism. It is contemporary while invoking something of the European Masters.”

B Rowell, gallery owner, Jacaranda Images