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I started taking still pictures of women through my work in film and video. I am mainly a filmmaker but my films also corresponds to the photographs I take. I'd like to work with models that are interested in expanding their portfolios for trade.

If you are interested in video or film work please contact me as well.

Thank you.

EXHIBITIONS / PRINT/ WEB

-"Smut Vol.2" paperback book published by Nerve.com, cover photograph, 2009

-Nerve.com, "Red Hot" Gallery for Nerve, 2007

-Nerve.com, "Dressed To Kill" Homage to De Palma for Halloween, 2006

-Nerve.com, "The Line of Beauty" Featured Photographer , October, 2006

-Fleshbot, Photographer Profile, June 14, 2006

-Japanese Form, Photographer review, June 9, 2006

-"USA is boring",model: Naomi Z, page 4: hello, Lumpen Magazine 99, March 2006

-"Noisy Daughters" models Adele Phi & Katinka for noisydaughter.com

-"Furniture and Naked People #3", model Adele Phi for The Modernist

-"One Wound?" model Katinka , No Name Magazine (NNM#5 .LimiT.)

-"It's Not The Bullet That Thrills, It's The Hole", new work on sex & violence;
F.I.N Arts;New York City, NY; June-July 2003 (photography, video)

biography:

Usama Alshaibi was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1969 and spent his formative years living between the United States and the Middle East. His work in film and video has been screened at numerous film festivals and venues across the globe. In early 2004 Usama and his wife returned to his birthplace in Iraq to shoot his first feature documentary titled Nice Bombs. The documentary had a theatrical release in 2007 and a broadcast premiere on the Sundance Channel on March 19, 2008.

Usama has completed one narrative feature titled Muhammad and Jane, and more than thirty short films and videos that are on various International DVD compilations. He has also produced and directed music videos for a variety of recording artists, including Bobby Conn, Magic is Küntmaster, Panicsville and Mahjongg. Usama was the founder and Director of the notorious Chicago based Z Film Festival from 2000 to 2005.

In addition to reaching an eclectic audience with his film work, Alshaibi's photography and art have been included in various gallery exhibitions and web publications. An interview with Usama appears in Studs Terkel's book Hope Dies Last and his films have been included in Jack Sargeant's book Deathtripping The Extreme Underground. Feature articles have been written about his work in such places as the Chicago Tribune, Time Out, and Variety, and he has made appearances on various television and radio news programs.

Alshaibi is the recipient of a generous 2005 grant from the Creative Capital Foundation for the Arts and a Playboy Foundation Award, as well as the winner of the Creative Promise Award at Tribeca All Access in New York City.

USAMA ALSHAIBI