Jaskirit Kaur Dhaliwal and an award winning Sikh woman photographer and visual artist, will be exhibiting her body of work on British Asian Musicians at The Drum arts centre in Birmingham from July - August 2009.
Her website has been updated with new photographs she took whilst travelling and working as a Photographer internationally last year.
This includes 'World Landscapes', 'Uniform' and 'Faces of the world'.
Jaskirt is a photographer and visual artist, having previously worked for BBC Asian Network, BBC Birmingham, Princess Cruises and Craftspace.
Jaskirt’s passion for photography and visual media has led to her being commissioned to cover a number of live music events for national radio station BBC Asian Network, including Paradise Gardens and London Mela 2007. She also made a Stop Motion video for BBC Asian Network’s Friction, the 2007 Sony Gold Specialist Music award winning show.
Photographically she's won the Photo Imaging Council Award for a body of work on Women’s Football, which was published in the British Journal of Photography, Times of India and BBC online. She has exhibited that body of work at 2007’s Focus on Imaging exhibition at Birmingham’s NEC, Coventry’s Ricoh Arena, Redditch United and the Glasshouse Gallery in Coventry. Fujifilm also sponsored her for this body of work.
Jaskirt's other awards include being a winner of Shoot Experience, and as a result her grassroots football landscape of ‘The Rec’ was exhibited at the UN Headquarters in New York as part of International Youth Day. Jaskirt’s photograph ‘Puti Chappal’ (upside down sandal) was also exhibited at the Association Of Photographers Gallery in London as part of Fujifilm and AOP's Black & White Superstitions exhibition in October 2007.
She was also one of the official photographers for multi faith celebrations of Guru Maneyo Granth held in Birmingham
In March 2008 she held an exhibition at the BBC Public Space in Birmingham, showcasing her work on emerging British Asian musicians. It also included her Stop Motion Friction video.
For the remainder of 2008, Jaskirt worked internationally with Princess cruises, creating and working on 3 new bodies of work, Uniform, Faces of the World and World landscapes.
Her work can be viewed on her website