"Avec la liberté de celui que la culture n'a pas entièrment englouti, le vagabond de la musique ramasse le morceau de verre qu'il trouve sur la route et le tend vers le soleil pour en faire jaillir milles couleurs"
- Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno


"I know you're a quiet workman on God's eternal construction site and don't like hearing about demolition, but what can I do? Myself, I'm not one of God's bricklayers. Besides, if God's bricklayers built real walls, I doubt we'd be able to demolish them. But instead of walls all I see is stage sets. And stage sets are made to be demolished."
- Milan Kundera

"today, without even knowing it, I ceased to be a person when a man I had never met looked straight through me and saw the violence in his own heart."
- Kazim Ali

"Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs. As a matter of fact nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for the love of it, and not merely for financial reasons. As the name implies, an amateur is one who works for love; and viewed in this light the incorrectness of the popular classification is readily apparent."
- A. Stieglitz

"Morphologically speaking, men represent an intermediary stage between monkeys and great edifices"
-Georges Bataille

"you're as black as MJ... yeah that's about exactly right"
-Holly Clark



musician, photographer, calligraphist and working architect ( presently residing in Chicago, moved from Lawrence Kansas, born/raised in Morocco, land of - as we all know - camels, couscous and humphrey bogart.

...people on flickr used to complain about my swearing, but not so much anymore now. that's pretty fuckin sad... now I have to resort to more subtle and grown up ways of offending people... whatever that entails.

... immigration services officers love to ask me if I speak English... I don't, really, I hire my own interpreter to follow me everywhere...

...stress me out and i'll smoke like a forest fire...

...looking to get a Masters in Photography and Media Studies before i'm too old for school...

so that's that.

MUSIC !!

the would fly bike

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    Anna Osk says:

    "His self portraits are amazing..and so unique!
    He has humor and true skills in photography!
    Keep up the great work, love your stuff!
    A"

    19th May, 2007

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    lomokev says:

    "takes grate photos but swears to much. shame"

    2nd February, 2007

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    Gail Orenstein says:

    ""Wow-what a wonderful surprise! AB's photos are like a travel adventure. The shots are are very unique-one minute you are in a the very dark contrast that shadows his portraits and the next minute your in a bright beautiful space I think the site is more like a photo journey. It is one I have enjoyed taking and will continue to come back for the ride. A super image trip!""

    15th September, 2006

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    _mey_ says:

    "he`s sharp as fuck, and the quality and tecnique he uses is createful, and original...
    but this boi really nows how to do the contrast thingy... thanks for showing!"

    5th August, 2006

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    rachels_squiggles says:

    "smarty pants bad boy amazing brush strokes so glad to have found his work."

    31st January, 2006

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    MissShellie says:

    "i just got done watching all your photos on 1 sec. slide show and i really was touched by the amount of emotion, struggle, strength, passion, intensity, beauty, humor, reality that there is in YOU."

    19th April, 2005

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    *Purplette* says:

    "Great series of self-portraits, a morbid art case of story-telling images which will always be remembered..good job fadel.."

    4th April, 2005

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    Theremina says:

    "A maker of images as dark and sweet and heart-palpitating as black coffee with three sugars and a pack of unfiltered cigarettes."

    30th March, 2005

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    samuel_y says:

    "the expressiveness and emotion in am's work, whether his dramatic photos, delicate caligraphy, or powerful ps-edits, is always present. his comments are valuable (and valued by Me) - definitely recommended"

    11th February, 2005

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    P.E.3. says:

    "it's always a pleasure to meet someone like Fadil...it's typical Lawrence carma...i've got more in common with this cat than we both will ever know, and the guy's heart is HUGH....keep it RAW homie.....I luv your style!!!!!!!"

    28th January, 2005

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    satan_inheelz says:

    "to sum it up... HE KICKS ASS!!! (literally)"

    27th January, 2005

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    Ms Entropy says:

    "ok...what can i say about this man? well, i can say this: his buddy icon strangely resembles an arab hunter s. thompson. but that's hot. fadil: a shy guy with a big heart."

    5th December, 2004

Name:
Fadil Elmansour
Joined:
October 2004
Hometown:
Rabat, Morocco
Currently:
Chicago, IL, USA
I am:
Male
Occupation:
Architect
Website:
visit my blog, I dare you