Photographing Sikhs With Fiona Aboud

THE HUFFINGTON POST
By Gina Ryder

Didar Singh Bains in Yuba City (2010) By Fiona Aboud

NEW YORK---For the past five years photographer Fiona Aboud has been traveling around the U.S. taking pictures of Sikh Americans. Part of her series, Sikhs: An American Portrait was recently featured in Huffington as the general public was gathering more information about Sikhs after the gaurdwara shooting in Wisconsin. Inspired by the color palettes and environments of the American realist painters, Aboud captures Sikhs literally in their backyards among other everyday places. The New York based Brazilian photographer has a book planned as well as a ten-city traveling outdoor pop-up exhibit. The underlying question her work seems to answer is, "How we we teach people not to hate?". She says, “My hope is that people seeing the pictures it will make them see how similar we are.” [link]