Photographers Amit & Naroop Capture Unique Ways Sikh Men Wear Their Beards and Turbans

THE INDEPENDENT
By Iain Aitch

The pair are known in the music world for their portraits of 50 Cent and Tinie Tempah, but
have managed to portray the 36 subjects in "Singh" with as much star quality as any chart-topper

When our cities' coffee shops, bars and clubs started to fill with young men sporting carefully maintained beards and waxed moustaches, photographers Amit and Naroop began to do double-takes. After all, this was a look the pair – both west London Sikhs – were more used to seeing at their gurdwara than in fashion outlets. The pair are known in the music world for their portraits of 50 Cent and Tinie Tempah, but have managed to portray the 36 subjects in "Singh" with as much star quality as any chart-topper. [link]
'Singh' is at the Framers Gallery, London W1 (theframersgallery.co.uk), from 3 to 15 November 

Photographers Amit and Naroop took portraits of Sikh men they knew as part of our own, personal
projects, then began to photograph men who wore their beard and turban in a way that made them unique