xinjiang – Mimo Khair Creative

Virtual Tour- ‘Facing Future’ Exhibition

Sep 24, 2024

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Here is the virtual tour of the exhibition that is still open for view in Venice till October 5. Today is the international day of Peace. Praying for peace in Lebanon and all other places of conflicts where children and innocents are suffering. Also moments from the opening event. Thanks to all who went all…

Venice Exhibition and ‘Facing Future’ Book: Embracing Creativity in a Changing World

Aug 6, 2024

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~mimo~

in art, book, book publishing, cambodia, china, exhibition, Fine art, human rights, india, inspiration, lebanon, Photography, portrait, refugees, street, street photography, war, xinjiang

It has been a while since I posted. Here with this post, I hope to update you, my friends, with some of what has been happening in my creative life. As always I am trying to understand the changes happening in me and in the world around me, like most people are. The world is…

Facing Future~ The Book is Here!

Jan 25, 2024

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~mimo~

in art, authors, book, book publishing, cambodia, children, children's rights, china, exhibition, human rights, india, inspiration, lebanon, Photography, portrait, street, street photography, war, xinjiang

Dear Friends, I would love to have your support for this important project. It has been urging to appear and to be put into the world . I have spent the last few months working on curating the images of these amazing children. I have been reliving in the process the moments spent in those…

FACING FUTURE- New Book Porject!

Jan 22, 2024

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~mimo~

in CAMBODIA, children, children's rights, human rights, india, LEBANON, Photography, street, street photography, women

FACING FUTURE is my new project launching next Friday, January 26th with Snap Collective. This will include a carefully selected collection of my most important work with children from 5 different countries taken between 2009 and 2017. All of these children were subjected to extremely difficult living conditions due to war, displacement, poverty or abuse.…

Morning Coffee Talk~18/365

Dec 18, 2021

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~mimo~

in CHINA, contemplations, Germany, myanmar, Photography, street, street photography

Good Morning, It is winter in this part of the world and everyone spends a large part of their day indoors, seeing the world through window panes. How much of our lives is actually lived behind such barriers, in our cars, homes, schools, offices, airplanes, buses… It feels like we see the world and the…

Breaking out of our self-made prisons~

Feb 24, 2018

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~mimo~

in CHINA, contemplations, Photography, xinjiang

It has been said that the chains that bind us are mostly self-manufactured by our own self-esteem and pride. Personal development is an uncomfortable journey upward and into the unknown, if only we dare. Day 54 of 365~ Image taken in the entrance to the old tea house in Kashgar, Xinjiang

Protecting Innocence~

Feb 23, 2018

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~mimo~

in children's rights, CHINA, Photography, street photography, Uncategorized, xinjiang

They arrive to this earth relying on our coded ability to host them as they take human form. They are born tiny and helpless and it is up to us to support, care for and nurture them till they can care for themselves. They carry in them the promise and possibility of a better tomorrow.…

Closer to the sky~

Feb 22, 2018

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~mimo~

in CHINA, Photography, street photography, Uncategorized

Somewhere life goes on, just simply, disconnected from our worldwide web. When you have the universal web of sky, sun, stars and earth, why would you downgrade to the contaminated world of Social media? Day 52 of 365~ Image taken on the Karakoram Highway, old silk road, Xinjiang.

Have you found your art?~

Jan 10, 2018

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~mimo~

in CHINA, Photography

Is there something that allows you to live life more passionately? Do you find yourself doing something regularly that you cannot not do and it makes time as you know it stretch, fly by or completely come to a halt? Is there a place inside your world that only you hold the key to? Because…

Tajik Smile~ Tashkurgan

Sep 25, 2016

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~mimo~

in CHINA, street photography, xinjiang

In the town of Tashkurgan, home of the Tajik people in Xinjiang, bordering Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan, I met this boy in the old mountainous Pamir region. It is said that this town marks the middle way between Europe and China. The faces I saw there were unforgettable.

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