About Amyn Nasser

Amyn Nasser is a critically acclaimed photographer of architecture. For more than 30 years, he has travelled the world from north to south photographing a huge variety of national landmarks and modern-day architecture. Amyn has received… Read more

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Nasser’s landmark series Voyeur Nocturne stands as a definitive ten-month psychological exploration of Vancouver’s "City of Glass."
Once the sun sets, Nasser transforms the modern metropolis into an atmospheric theatre of light, contour, and shadow. His large-format works expose the fluid boundary between the private and public spheres. Bathed in an iridescent, harmonic glow, each glittering high-rise window invites the viewer to look closer—awakening the silent observer and treating the city not as static steel, but as a living, breathing character.
Created with his proprietary cinematic Technicolor metallic formula, the large-format works reveal Nasser’s pioneering approach to image coloration and expose the fluid boundary between the private and public spheres. Bathed in an iridescent, harmonic glow, each glittering high-rise window invites the viewer to look closer — awakening the silent observer and treating the city not as static steel, but as a living, breathing character.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Amyn Nasser is a critically acclaimed photographer of architecture. For more than 30 years, he has travelled the world from north to south photographing a huge variety of national landmarks and modern-day architecture. Amyn has received accolades and prizes for photography worldwide in 2019. He has won the Applied Arts Architecture Award two years in a row.

Amyn’s consistently exemplary work keeps him in company with the most influential photographers worldwide. Especially his architectural motifs are pioneers in the field of image coloration. They are reminiscent of early 1960s artwork and fascinate today’s viewers all over the world. The secret lies within Amyn's personal formula in photo editing - he is utilizing a cinematic Technicolor metallic formula that is unique to his body of work. His ten feet wide architecture photos were the first to be printed on high-grade luxury super gloss aluminum.

With an extraordinary ability to tell visual stories, Amyn’s vision goes beyond the structures of the metropolis. He portrays the human condition in our times like few other are able to do. His outstanding ability to observe our ever changing world allows him to produce the most memorable photographs that are modern and dynamic yet timeless in their aesthetics.

Cities of Molten Gold

Skyscrapers of luminous gold and silver hues rise up from the bright city streets into the night sky. Once the sun sets on Vancouver, the façade of the city, bathed in an iridescent glow, quickly transforms into an atmospheric backdrop for the city’s night owls. In his large-format pieces, Amyn Nasser captures this remarkable mood and allows each glittering window to tell its story. The voyeur inside us is brought out, and we search for the hidden details behind the glass like enthusiastic detectives.

Amyn Nasser’s Voyeur Nocturne body of work is the result of a ten-month project exploring Vancouver’s high-rise jungle from unknown perspectives. His concept of exploring the essence of Vancouver at night through colour, contour, and light has produced a series of exceptional architectural photographs. Warm, metallic colours that range from glistening gold to silvery platinum to shimmering bronze are characteristic of Nasser’s work. Though shot from afar, the city’s silhouette is bathed in a harmonic light and emits a welcoming warmth, inviting us to linger the way a lit window does a silent observer.

Amyn Nasser’s work is more than a mere tribute to the beauty of his adopted hometown. They can also be interpreted as a critical reflection of a society in which the boundaries between private and public have become fluid. Having already published spreads in Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar as a fashion photographer, Nasser has won countless prizes for his architectural photography and plans to continue developing this body of work.

VITA

From his birthplace in Zanzibar to an
international career spanning more than four decades, Canadian
photographer Amyn Nasser has built an award-winning oeuvre across
editorial, portrait, architectural, and fine art photography, with works
published in leading magazines including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE,
Marie Claire, GQ, Esquire, L’Officiel, and Rolling Stone.
Nasser
is regarded as a global pioneer of image coloration, known for his
closely guarded, proprietary cinematic Technicolor metallic formula — an
aesthetic reminiscent of mid-century Pop Art and the tonal intensity of
the 1970s. He was also among the first contemporary photographers to
present architectural imagery in monumental formats, printing on
high-gloss aluminum to create striking spatial depth and luminosity.
Today,
Amyn Nasser lives and works around the globe, continuing to shape
image-making with a distinctive visual language of narrative suspense,
visual tension, and cinematic luminosity.

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2017	LUMAS Vancouver Gastown Exhibit | June 22, 2017, Voyeur [A] Nocturne
2016	Mirror Ball - Allstream Center Toronto - November 2016
2016	TRUNK AutoONE - Vancouver Canada - November 2016 - March 2017 Voyeur [A] Nocturne
2015	TRUNK Gallery | Voyeur Nocturne Works | Architecture & Erotica [Downtown Gallery]
2014	TRUNK Gallery | Voyeur Nocturne Works Architecture + Erotica
2012	TRUNK Gallery | Architecture Vancouver Study
2011	TRUNK Gallery Vancouver | Exhibits [V]+[E] - Voyeur Nocturne Works | 2011 | Solo Show
2010	TRUNK Gallery - Vancouver | Voyeur Nocturne Works [V] Architecture | Solo Show
2010	TRUNK Gallery - Vancouver | Voyeur Nocturne Works [E] Erotica | Solo Show
2010	Olympic Village 2010 Vancouver | Voyeur [V] Nocturne Architecture | Solo Show
1993	Tous Les Calçon Paris | Solo Show | Men

Group Exhibitions

2015	Nikon International Galleries | PhotoPlus Expo at the Jacob Javits Center, New York
2014	ROAM Gallery | Voyeur Nocturne [V] DLXIX | The Vancouver Club May 2014
2011	October | Arts Umbrella - Splash! Vancouver | Voyeur [E] Nocturne: MMMDCCCLXVI Possession, Red Lounge | Opening Piece Lot # 1
2010	November | Sotheby's | Modern Views: A National Trust Project for The Farnsworth House and Glass House. Chicago, New York - Sotheby's. | Morbras Meeting Point #1 Assouline Limited Edition Book
2010-2011	Smithsonian Castle , Washington, D.C. |Voyeur [V] Nocturne: MCDXXIII
2010	October | Arts Umbrella - Splash! Vancouver | Voyeur [V] Nocturne: CCXCVI
2010	Unite With Art - Vancouver | Voyeur [V] Nocturne: MDLX