Javed Jafferji is a professional photographer living in Zanzibar. He has lived in Tanzania, Pakistan and the UK, where he studied Photography, TV and Film at Paddington College and Salisbury College of Art & Design. His work has been featured in top international publications such as Newsweek, Sunday Times, Independent, Guardian, and many other newspapers and magazines worldwide.
Javed held an exhibition at London’s Commonwealth Institute entitled 'Zingadi Ke Rang' (Colours of Life) on Pakistan. He was the curator of an exhibition of historical photographs of Zanzibar in Paris at Le Bon Marche in 1999 and has had various exhibitions in Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar including ‘Images of the Swahili Coast' at the Goethe Institute in Dar es Salaam and the Palace Museum in Zanzibar. He also heads Zanzibar’s Gallery Publications and publishes the annual Travel and Tourism Directory in association with Tanzania Confederation of Tourism and its members.
Javed has been involved with several books about Zanzibar including- Zanzibar Stone Town-An Architectural Exploration, Historical Zanzibar - Romance of the Ages, Doors of Zanzibar, Zanzibar- a Plan for Historic Stone Town, Memoirs of Arabian Princess from Zanzibar, Tanzania - African Eden and an extensive folio of maps, calendars, address books, posters and postcards of Zanzibar and mainland Tanzania.
Besides Photography, Javed manages 'The Zanzibar Gallery', a combination of curio shop, book shop, art gallery and boutique situated in Shangani, in the heart of Stone Town. ZG can provide professional photography to order, or you can choose stock photos from our extensive image library. Javed Jafferji also provides photographic services for fashion, weddings and documentary photography.
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