Shameel Arafin
United States
NORTH AMERICA
Shameel Arafin (b.1975) is a freelance photographer based in New York City.Over the last two years, his photojournalism has revolved around the culture of resistance in America, specifically with regard to documenting the erosion of civil liberties.
His photography has appeared in publications such as CNN.com, The Sunday Times, GQ Magazine,The Daily Mail, Al Jazeera Fault Lines, The Progressive, Frieze Magazine, Art21, Socialist Worker, Kristeligt Dagblad, La Lettre de la Photographie, The Irish Times, Illume Magazine, Venture Beat and Make Magazine.
Shameel studied literature at Harvard and electrical engineering at Caltech.He lives in Brooklyn and works at MediaStorm as a software architect, where he is developing a storytelling platform for the distribution of cinematic, multimedia narratives.His work in multimedia software has been featured in Time Magazine's Lightbox.
Shameel is a member of NPPA, and is available for editorial assignments.Select images are available on Corbis.
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Hundreds gathered in Washington Square Park on a glorious afternoon to do battle with pillows during the 8th Annual Pillow Fight Day in New York.
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New Yorkers celebrated the Lunar New Year, or Chinese New Year, in Chinatown with firecrackers and a Lion Dance parade. The occasion heralds the start of the Chinese Year of the Snake.
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Occupy Wall Street held a mock-wedding on the steps of Federal Hall in Lower Manhattan. The event was a satirical piece of political theater expressing discontent with the concept of corporate personhood.
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Weeks after Hurricane Sandy hit New York, clean-up and rebuilding efforts continue in the Broad Channel and Rockaway Beach communities.
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New Yorkers of all stripes gathered in Times Square to watch the US presidential election results, cheering when Barack Obama pulled ahead of Republican candidate Mitt Romney and won a second term in office.
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At 3am, New Yorkers began to gather in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn for an all-night street party, known as J'Ouvert. Held every year before the West Indian Day parade, J'ouvert is a celebration that originated with slaves in Trinidad.
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Hundreds of Muslims attended the morning prayer at Madina Masjid in the East Village, Manhattan, to begin celebrating Eid today. Eid is a religious celebration following the end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month.
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Over a thousand people attended a candlelight vigil in Union Square, New York, to mourn the six victims of a Sikh temple shooting in Wisconsin.
