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Born and raised in Cape Town, the Essop brothers have been collaborating since their graduation from the Michaelis School of Fine Arts at.

Brothers Hasan and Husain Essop take photographic series that break down modern Muslim stereotypes as fabrications carefully realized through a lens.

Hasan And Husain Essop Biography.

Husain and Hasan Essop, born The Essops are twin brothers based in Cape Town who create staged photographs depicting aspects of local Muslim life.

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Hasan And Husain Essop Biography.!

The art of unrest

The Cape Town-born twin brothers Hasan and Husain Essop move beyond the expected. They play with fixed notions of place and identity as well as preconceptions of religion and tradition in a city that values keeping its apartheid era categories, especially for those it labelled its picturesque, acquiescent others: the Muslims who are the descendants of the first wave of dissenters and slaves brought to the Cape from Indian Ocean islands by the Dutch East India Company.

Born in 1985 in Cape Town, both studied at Michaelis School of Fine Art and started to work together on the Halaal Art project shortly after their graduation. After Halaal Art, the young artists went through an artistic and personal journey to other projects, notably Remembrance to Unrest.

Besides working and developing their art, both haveteaching degrees and work as arts facilitators in the community of Hangberg and Imizamo Yethu in Hout Bay, communities shaped by poverty and threatened by