Artist Profile

Saira is the photographer behind Naranji JReams Studios. She is a first-generation Pakistani artist raised in Dubai and Southern California. She also spent ten years living in Seattle Washington, returning to Southern California toward the end of the pandemic.

She runs her studio out of her Long Beach California apartment. Although she primarily works with digital photography, she began working with film photography as a teenager and trained in darkroom processes in the early 2000s. Her Education includes a BA in Literature, minor in Photography, a Master’s of Science Adult Education and Organizational Design.

Naranji JReams Studios is built around a clear mission: uplifting the underdog This commitment is informed by a decade+ career spent helping people and organizations optimize their potential, as well as her own experience stepping away from the arts as a young financial-aid student graduating during the 2010 recession and returning to her artistic practice more than a decade+ later.

“As an artist I'm constantly exploring ideas through my personal projects that influence the art I'm creating for your portraits and videos”

Women With Their Flowers

April 2025. This project documents a Portrait Pop up event held in my apartnert. Family, Friends, and Neighbors were invited to come and get portraits made with thier favorite flowers. This event set out to celebrate women in a country where their rights are being further redacted

The Matriarch Series

An ongoing Series where I am photographing the older generation of women in my family

Framed for viewing as part of a group show at Open Gallery Long Beach, CA

Show Title: Fleeting

Image Title: Dawn of a Matriarch

Tehmina is a woman’s name that means Powerful and Strong, in the Urdu language.

She is dressed in traditional and formal clothing that honors the profound and recent change in her life and her position, as a young matriarch, to her family.

She’s captured in a moment of strength, power, prayer, reflection, transition. We look to our matriarchs for faith, traditions, a living connection to our ancestry. Here is a woman sitting on the richness of her foundation, bravely seated to speak to the vastness for us all.