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]
Michelle Lougee, Cecily Miller. Magazine Beach Tapestry, 2022. ” In 2022, Cecily Miller and Michelle Lougee teamed up to create a new project for Magazine Beach Park in Cambridge. Taking inspiration from FLOTSAM — Michelle’s 2021 mash-up of tapestry and mosaic made of post-consumer waste — we aimed to create a new community-based work warning…
Sughra Raza. Under the Bridge at Deception Pass, Washington. April 2026. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Artist not known. Panorama of Lucknow From The Gomti, 1821-1826. (Detail from a scroll 31 cm x 1128 cm.) … Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 500 Markel, S. India’s fabled city, p. 84-86, 254 Painters, ports, and profits: artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850, p. 22, 41, 131, 157-167…
Sughra Raza. Microforest, March 2022. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Deborah E. Roberts. When You See Me, 2019. More here, here, and here. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Sughra Raza. Fungal Abstractions. March 2022, Vermont. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Sughra Raza. Esplanade Walks As Days Get Longer. Boston, March 2022. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Utkarsh Makwana. Detail from ‘Finishing Touches’, 2022. Courtesy: Akara Art. More here, here, and here. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Sughra Raza. Who’s Jealous?!. Celestun, Mexico, March 2025. Digital photograph. “The water in Celestún, particularly near the mangroves and estuary, often appears various shades of green, yellow, brown, due to its mineral content mixed with mangrove sediment with its high tannin, and natural phytoplanktons made possible by the mixing of fresh and sea water. This…
SUGHRA RAZA. Shadows On The Riverbed. Celestun, Mexico, March 2025. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Sughra Raza. Blizzard in Fractals. Boston, February, 2026. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
Sughra Raza. Finding Color. Boston, January, 2026. Digital photograph. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
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.