Shariff Miller

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Shariff Miller is an artistic collaboration between photographer, Rosalind Miller, and designer/artist, Zakee Shariff. Their work is a display of how two different mediums can work harmoniously together, complementing one another. By printing photographic images and overlaying the surface with silk-screen printed drawings, painting, digital layering, and illustration, the pieces may be seen to gain another dimension; a more painterly quality.

Working in combination since 1998, the artists have exhibited around the world, including venues in London and Tokyo. Recent projects include:

Orchid, 2007
Part of the Floral series
Digital illustration over photograph
24 × 20 cm

FLORAL

While pregnant with her first child, Gloria, Rosalind photographed a series of plants and flowers, representing growth, form, beauty, and health. To these, Zakee added sacred geometric shapes and fine drawings, combining the naturally occurring patterns found in the flowers with precise, but also inherently organic, geometric patterns.

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Untitled, 2006
Part of the Dubai series
Digital illustration over photograph
28 × 40 cm

DUBAI

In 2005, Rosalind and Zakee took a trip to Dubai, where they were struck by the immense size and growth of the city and the speed at which it was becoming more Western in look. Rosalind photographed various areas of the city, to which Zakee added geometric drawings relating to Islamic patterns, representing a combination of the old Middle Eastern culture against the more Westernized development that is occurring now.

Click here to see more work from the Dubai project.

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