Shiraz Ahmed is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist and visual artist. His work addresses social inequities, marginalization and the unending attempt to better our world.
His artistic practice subverts dominant narratives prevalent in popular discourse through satirical and surrealist image-making and social commentary in film, photography and writing. He works with communities misrepresented due to religious, racial or economic discrimination and attempts to correct for visual biases found in his research. He has reported on housing, healthcare and social service programs at news organizations in Memphis, Detroit and his home state of Texas.
Ahmed’s short documentary film, “The Safety Net,” (2023) was selected for the Prison City Film Festival, Freep Film Festival and won Best Documentary at the Duke Independent Film Festival. He has participated in fellowships with NBC Universal, Kartemquin Educational Films, the New York Foundation for the Arts and Documenting Detroit.
He is appointed as an Assistant Professor in Documentary Expression at the University of Mississippi and is a graduate of Duke University (MFA Experimental and Documentary Arts, ‘24) and Northwestern University (BS Journalism, ‘13).
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