Originally from Karachi, Pakistan, Abbas has an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering & computer science from Johns Hopkins University, and a graduate degree in philosophy from Columbia University. He lives with his wife, Margit Oberrauch, and their feline friend, Frederica Krueger, in the small, very beautiful city of Brixen in the Italian Alps. Email: s.abbas.raza.1 [at] gmail.com
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What is peculiar about this photo is that what you see behind the metal frame of the door is not a supermarket. It is a giant photo of the supermarket affixed to the wall which is a couple of meters behind this door. The actual supermarket shown in the photo on the wall is off…
Reflection in a hotel window in Vahrn, South Tyrol, in September of 2017. The slight confusion this photo creates about what is inside and what outside the window reminded me of some lines from the beginning of the poem “Pale Fire” by Vladimir Nabokov (in the eponymous novel which it begins, the poem is supposed…
Morning view from my bedroom window in Brixen, South Tyrol, in May of 2016.
I was about to board this Frecciargento fast train from Bozen to Verona last week when I noticed how nicely the shape of the train matched the shape of the mountain in the background.
Self-portrait in reflection on the entrance doors of the showroom of famous chandelier-maker, Faustig, in Brixen, South Tyrol, in October of 2014.
Alpine meadow near my house in July, 2019.
Our cat, Frederica Krüger, has taken to spying on me while I work in my home office.
My wife’s cactus plant suddenly produced this spectacular bloom a couple of days ago.
In January of this year I was walking along the main road in the small village of Klerant up in the mountains above Brixen, in the Südtirol, when I heard a rooster crowing loudly. I looked up to see these two posing perfectly for a portrait in this window. One can also see part of the…
Burnet moth on flowers on my balcony in July of 2018.
Photo taken while walking with Robin Varghese near Prospect Park in Brooklyn in May of 2015.
Cars seen through a rusty metal fence in Brixen, South Tyrol, in May, 2016.
Self-portrait in a reflection in a passing train window, while another train goes the other way behind me, at the train station in Franzensfeste, South Tyrol, in May of 2019.
Fruit in a bowl in the kitchen of a B&B in Basel, Switzerland, in January of 2017.
Denver, Colorado, in May of 2015.
Alpine meadow in the South Tyrol in May of 2019.
Train station in Franzensfeste, South Tyrol, in May of 2019.
Photo of moon with a jet vapor trail taken from my balcony in April of 2015.
Solitary swan outside the Diocesan Museum, Brixen, South Tyrol, in April, 2014.
Moonrise over a mountain called Plose. Photo from my balcony in October of 2016.