Welcome to Nusrat Durrani Art:
a portfolio of photography, film, and words
from A three-decade career in POP CULTURE at MTV and beyond.
“The truth is: this is not my “work.” It is a look-book of an invisible royalty, a catalog of desires and alternative endings. My photography is not an artistic practice. It is a sequence of hallucinations with bruised and beautiful dissenters in lost cities at the edge of time seen through an unreliable but adoring eye. One could argue they are journal entries about encounters with punks and poets and narcoleptic lovers and losers in my travels through our bewildering world. These are not photographs or films. They are electrified histories of my co-conspirators, pulsating with the smell of Oud, the songs of Asmahan, and the subway thrumming below us. You can dismiss them as hypnagogic anti-portraits streaked with laughter and tears as the shutter opened and closed one last time and I took the midnight bus home. But at least we have forensic evidence that once I was alive with my unlikely heroes in the intimacy of a disappearing moment, rendering them immortal in our imagination.”
Read the full ARTIST STATEMENT.
“The Wild Passions of Guillermo Olguín” “Las Pasiones Salvajes de Guillermo Olguín.”
IN JOURNAL: Oaxaca’s iconic painter of fantasies has more on his mind than canvases, brushes & oil.
What Does Not Change Ce qui ne change pas
In Film and Video: Watch a passionate short film about love- the wild constant in a sea of change.
“AN AMERICAN PRAYER” “UNA ORACIÓN AMERICANA”
IN FILM & VIDEO: Nusrat’s doc about the disintegrating American dream in a time of pandemic, black lives matter & the first trump presidency.
DANCING WITH HERSELF KENDİSİYLE DANS EDİYOR
In JOURNAL: BEDAZZLED BY miss x on A BLISTERING AFTERNOON In ESTAMBUL.
mythical trees of Joshua Tree Park მითიური ხეები
In the sHOP: TRANSFORMATIVE PRINTS of ICONIC TREES, GHOST ANIMALS & THE majestic CROSS.
Till the Next Time You Say Goodbye 次に別れを告げるまで
In Photography: Portraits from around the world seething with emotion, the search for identity, joy, ecstatic release, sadness, and longing.
A Memory of Namibia Eine Erinnerung an Namibia
In New - An homage to one of the world’s most beautiful countries, and a memory of the first genocide of the 20th century
