Source: Dawn
Authors: MUHAMMAD UMAR | YUMNA RAFI | ADEEL AHMED
Parvez, 60, came into media spotlight when his painting of the Obamas was photographed by a student photographer at‘Humans of Lyari’ (HOL) — a venture of the Society for International Education and the Karachi Youth Initiative, and put up on their Facebook page after which it instantly went viral.
The once unheard of aesthete had an artistic den; a few creaky benches stained with paint, a stool with a piece of glass which served the purpose of a palette and a number of men appeared into sight as narrow alleyways (and a goats’ enclosure) led us into his sunlit studio.
Categories: Asia