Azrul Kevin Abdullah
by james on Feb.14, 2012, under Photographers
Based in Kuala Lumpur, Azrul Kevin Abdullah is a photographer is one of the established artists in this field. He has been involved as a photographer with the media and the Malaysian Press before returning to his roots and passion in this art form. Azrul has been involved with many corporations where he has travelled around to many countries during his assignments including Shanghai, Australia, Hong Kong, the United States, Singapore as well as around Malaysia.
As a photographer, Azrul has been actively involved in helping to develop the industry where he has been a speaker for Apple Malaysia where he deliberated on digital photography and in black and white, which is his favourite medium. Azrul’s work is very highly regarded where some of them have been published in publications like Off The Edge, The Sun, Architecture Malaysia, Design and Architecture Asia, PlanB, Cubes and the widely popular Harper’s Bazaar.
Apart from that, Azrul has also been appointed to be the judge in competitions where he was also the consultant for the 25th Anniversary of the Chancery building for the Australian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur. Among some of his areas of expertise include photography of interiors, architecture, portraiture as well as large format art duplication. As an artist, his works were previously exhibited at the ’4Buildings’ exhibition at The Photographers Gallery in 2004 while he was also involved with the traveling exhibition entitled Pass The Picture held in conjunction with the Goethe Institute.
In 2008, he was the co-curator of the Malaysia After 50 show held at Central Market while the same yaer, the Goethe Institute also held the ‘Pass the Picture Out of Berlin’. Azrul’s works were also exhibited at a joint exhibition at Gooethehaus Jakarta in a show entitled ‘Mapping Invisible Cities’ while his works were also published in the ‘Concrete, Metal, Glass: Hijjas Kasturi Associates (Selected Works 1977-2007)’ by Dr. Paul McGillick and the Dr Chandran Jeshurun’s ‘Kuala Lumpur: Corporate Capital, Cultural Cornupcopia’.