Sughra grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, along with siblings Abbas and Azra (above), and several others. She studied fine arts as an undergraduate, later shifting gears to become a doctor of medicine, specializing in diagnostic radiology. Sughra lives in Boston, Massachusetts, working and teaching at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She feels most excited in a world of images, invention, art and music; and despite Fenway Park floodlights lighting up the sky in her windows, she remains oblivious to the Red Sox battling the Yankees a stone’s throw away. Email: [email protected]
Jacob Lawrence. Migration Series (Panel 52). Casein tempera on hardboard. “… Spring, 1968. All my students were black, and I wasn’t. Jacob Lawrence, who was teaching a course down the hall from me at Pratt Institute, was a famous artist and a real teacher; I wasn’t either of those things. When I introduced myself as…
Alia Farid. From the series “Elsewhere”. Produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London. Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery; Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain, Brest. ” … Whether working with Samawa weavers in Iraq, fountain fabricators in Kuwait, or young residents of the Chibayish marshlands, Farid says, ‘Much of the process is developing the craft together.’ Elsewhere (1 December 2023–4…
Allan Rohan Crite. Sometimes I’m Up, Sometimes I’m Down. Illustration for Three Spirituals from Earth to Heaven (Cambridge, Mass., 1948),” 1937. (Photographs of framed prints by Sughra Raza). More here and here. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Sughra Raza. Blood. August 2024. Digital Photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Allan Rohan Crite. Sometimes I’m Up, Sometimes I’m Down. Illustration for Three Spirituals from Earth to Heaven (Cambridge, Mass., 1948),” 1937. (Photographs of framed prints by Sughra Raza). “… Back there in the ’30s, the concept of Blacks was usually of somebody up in Harlem, or the sharecropper from the Deep South, or what you…
Sughra Raza. Bey Unvaan. January, 2026. Digital photograph. On the Pulse of Morning by Maya Angelou A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon, The dinosaur, who left dried tokens Of their sojourn here On our planet floor, Any broad alarm of their hastening doom Is lost in…
Marco A Castillo. Mangle I, 2025. Bronze. More here, here and here. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Sughra Raza. Landings, Dec 23, 2025. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Sughra Raza. Underbelly Color and Shadows. Santiago, Chile, Nov, 2017. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Sughra Raza. First Snow. Dec 14, 2025. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Chiharu Shiota. Infinite Memory, 2025. Dresses and ropes. Commissioned by M+, Hong Kong, 2025. Photograph by Sughra Raza, Nov 1, 2025. More here, here, and here. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
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Nick Brandt. Zaina, Laila and Haroub, Jordan, 2024. From The Echo of Our Voices – The Day May Break. “… THE ECHO OF OUR VOICES is the fourth Chapter of The Day May Break. It was photographed in Jordan, which is considered the second most water-scarce country in the world. The photographs feature refugee families,…
Sughra Raza. Self-portrait in Temple, Jogjakarta, Indonesia, October 2025. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Anushka Rostomji. Waq Waq Tree, 2023, of the Flesh and Foliage Series. Charcoal and pencil on paper. More here and here. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Naotaka Hiro. Untitled (Tide), 2024. Canvas, fabric dye, oil pastel, rope, and grommets. “… Several of the paintings feature something strange: two perfectly round openings in the surface of the work. The Japanese-born, Pasadena-based artist uses these holes to practice a highly intimate kind of artmaking. Collapsing the traditional, arms-length distance between the artwork and…
Jaffer Kolb. Lake Mývatn, October 13th, 12:08 am. Digital photograph. With permission. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Sughra Raza. Under Construction. December 2023. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Hayv Kahraman. Rain Birds Ritual, 2025. Oil, acrylic and flax on acrylic. More here, here, and here. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Benny Andrews. Circle Study #2, 1972. More here, and here. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.