Syrian Photographer Releases Book: Home Sweet Home Alabama
While we're on the subject of photography, this project just came to our attention and looks like a book worth checking out.
Karim Shamsi-Basha was born in Damascus, Syria, but moved to Birmingham, Alabama in 1989 to work as a photographer for the now defunct Birmingham Post-Herald.
He has a new book out called Home Sweet Home Alabama and was featured on the local television news today.
He also has a couple of Web sites that I could find.
Karimisms
The Birmingham News's Bob Carlton featured him a few weeks back in this story: Pictures of Home.
If we are not mistaken, Karim was a friend of Spider Martin's and we met him in the late 1980s when he was still working for the Post-Herald at the first newsstand-coffee bar in the American South, NewsBreak, at 30th Street and Highland Avenue.
He seemed like a nice guy with a lot of talent as a photographer. We'll have to check out his book in the book stores during the holiday shopping season...