Mukhtar Dar is a Pakistani-born[1] photographer, painter, filmmaker and activist.
He became a founding member of the Sheffield Asian Youth Movement in the 1980s in England, and later joined the Birmingham Asian Youth Movement.
[2] Dar has served as Director of Arts at the Drum, an intercultural arts centre in Birmingham,[1] and in around 2008 served as Director of Arts of the Birmingham-based agency Sampad Arts.
[3] The Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, which in 2022 displayed a number of photographs and film clips by Dar in a pop-up exhibition about the history of the United Kingdom's Asian and African Caribbean communities' struggles with racism,[4][5] dubbed Dar "the unofficial artist of the largest grassroots movement in the history of the UK's South Asian communities.
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