"Taking photos of women is a most amazing, exciting, aesthetic, heart-thrilling, experience there is for me... Looking at a woman through my lense, I feel like I am beholding the beauty of the Creator's most beautiful creation and given the opportunity to capture it, not just admire it... I am always looking for some special smile, mysterious look, facial expression, or spontanesous moment and the excitement of the possibility of being able to freeze time, to stop it, and capture a moment of it is sheer aesthetic joy and enrichment. Photography for me is a form of worship. My photos are my Art. Do not desecrate my shrine."
Rami E. Cremesti BS, MS - Photographer
"For Love of The Sacred Awe"
July 17, 2001
Iris M.D.
Jennifer Tilly
Abir
Nicole
Arab Eyes... Kill Me
Number 77
Sohat *
Guaida Making Roses I
Guaida and Mirror II
Beautiful Mom
Alissandra
Mary in B&W
Guaida Singing III
Guaida Before Performance IV
Guaida Portrait V
Inexplicable Gaze
Ghannoush
Tempo Bar Israeli
East L.A. Latina
East L.A. Latina II
Café Habibi Krasivas
Erica
Dina
Shirley
More photography of women:
View Latinas of L.A. photo collection
View Shrine Tribute to Middle-eastern Women.
View "Flowers of Allah" page on Muslim beauty.
* "Batool and Imaan" and "Sohat" were published in The Voice, the english-language monthly magazine for forgeign students of Leuven, Belgium in the 7th April/May 2002 issue, year 5, in the article "Lifting The Veil" (article on the discrimination against muslim women in the west).
"Perfection achieved only as lightning, the briefest duration necessary to
negate our daily misery! Beauty is harsh..."
Odysseas Elytis - Eros, Eros, Eros