Adam Zameenzad (Saleem Ahmed)

1 portrait of Adam Zameenzad (Saleem Ahmed)

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Adam Zameenzad (Saleem Ahmed)

by Shemi Ghalé
resin print, April 1997
8 in. x 10 1/8 in. (203 mm x 257 mm)
Given by John Lowe, 1997
Photographs Collection
NPG x87136

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Current affairs

The Labour party - re-branded as New Labour - win a spectacular landslide election and Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister. Their electoral campaign promised that 'things can only get better' and that their priorities would be 'education, education, education.' While New Labour's 'third way' centralist approach put off some party traditionalists, it secured the popular vote.
Princess Diana and her lover Dodi Fayed die in a car crash in Paris.

Art and science

J.K. Rowling publishes Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first of seven fantasy books chronicling the life of Harry and his friends at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry: learning magic, breaking school rules, romantic entanglements and their struggles against the evil Lord Voldemort.
Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announce that they have cloned the first mammal from an adult cell: '6LL3', or Dolly the Sheep.

International

Governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten hands the island back to China after one hundred and fifty years as a British Colony. Although sovereignty was restored to China, it was agreed that the Island would become a 'Special Administrative Region' under the 'One Country, Two Systems' principle, effectively keeping its capitalist economy and way of life for a period of 50 years.

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Richard Baker

23 August 2020, 19:00

The donor, John Lowe, was an art student at Goldsmith’s College in the 1950’s. Both John and Adam Zameenzad were Quakers who attended the Friends’ Meeting house in Rochester, Kent. Adam was a long-time friend of John’s and occasional visitor to his house in Gravesend, where many dozens of paintings, prints and artworks were on display.