Afzal Ansary FRPS

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Afzal Ansary FRPS FBIPP FBPA Hon FMPA DGPh has worked all his professional life in Medical Scientific & Forensic Imaging. He is the principal author of the book entitled "The Colour Atlas of AIDS in the Tropics" which won the Lancet Award in 1990. His images have also been used by the BBC, Channel4 and Discovery Channel for production of television documentaries.

Afzal is now semi-retired and lives in Rochdale, North West of England, not far from the Lake District where he enjoys his hobby of landscape photography during various seasons, particularly during early spring and autumn when light produces marvellous colours and reflections. He now enjoys creative photography including travel photography as a hobby. His life long passion for photography has resulted in his being awarded the Fellowship of the British Institute of Professional Photography, Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society and Honorary Fellowship of the Master Photographers Association.

He has travelled extensively during his professional life for attending conferences, meetings and for holidays. Going to Kenya for photography is now an annual event. He recently returned from Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar where he shot more than 3000 pictures. Last year he took on a personal project to photograph the people of Pakistan. The fascinating aspect of his project on pictorial documentation of the ordinary people of Pakistan in their daily environment is that he spent time with them and understood his human subjects before undertaking the photography resulting into full consent and co-operation from the people he was photographing. He is currently working on putting up an exhibition of his photographs of the People of Pakistan.