50 Year Celebration for Celebrity Photographer

On Friday 11 May 2012, Maz Mashru ABIPP and his team invited Leicestershire’s prominent businesses and VIPs to the official opening of the new gallery and showroom, which was conducted by RT Hon Keith Vaz MP.

Guests were able to see timeless images back through the decades from Maz’s career to the present day. Maz, originally an exile from Uganda, became the photojournalist for the Argus Newspaper usually photographing Idi Amin and his Army, and has now established a spectacular reputation in Leicester over the year’s photographing many famous faces including Jackie Chan, Dionne Warwick, Tony Blair, Colin Salmon, Nina Wadia.

(Left to Right)  Maz Mashru, Rekha Mashru, RT Hon Keith Vaz MP,
RT Hon Valerie Vaz MP, Juliette Foster

Image Courtesy of Hardik Pandya LBIPP

To celebrate 50 years of trading, Maz of Leicester has moved to a spectacular events showroom and photography studio – probably one of the East Midlands' largest studios. The building, previously a factory in the 1970s, was completely derelict with no amenities. For over three decades the building had been an industrial factory with steel girders, exposed brick, loose pipe work and broken windows. Now fully restored, the showroom looks incredible with suspended ceilings, stunning lighting, specially sourced wallpaper that has the appearance of velvet, a black, off white and gold colour palette to co-ordinate with the branding.

Congratulations & best wishes to Maz and the team on the new gallery & showroom.