Haroon Azzaam Raja'ee

Haroon Azzaam Raja'ee was born in Chicago, Illinois, grew-up in his early teens in the Nation of Islam (Under the leadership of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed) where he studied photojournalism, creative portraiture and documentary photography under the Instructions of Hasan Mohammed Sharif, Eldest Grandson of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed (Historical Leader of the Nation of Islam), and nephew of Imam Warithuddin Mohammed (Imam W.D. Mohammed) Muslim American Spokesman for human salvation.. From Hasan Mohammed Sharif Haroon developed the aesthetic, moral aspect, sophisticated presentation, and the photographic mind of this great craft. He is a self taught artist, and graphic designer who attended Simeon Vocation and Sister Clara Mohammed High (Formerly the University of Islam under the Hon. Elijah Mohammed), Columbia College in Chicago, and the Metropolitan School of Tailoring. He have an immense love for creating images with natural light. "The light of the Creator shows the real subject when you're doing portraits" - states Haroon. As far as Art and the responsibility as visual Artist - "we must develop "Image Control." Our people can easily be manipulated because we collectively don't control or refuse to control destructive images that come into our conscience and our community."
In 1979 he established a sole proprietorship in photography called Photography by Raja'ee. In 1980 Haroon established New World International Art Group with the business collaboration of Jorge Melindez (Artist) and Alicia Rodriguez (Model / Secretary). In 1991 with the collaboration of fellow photographer Robert Thornton III they established Creative Two Photography. In 1992 he re-established a sole proprietorship called Raja'ee Photography.