I wasn’t always like this… I grew up in the suburbs on Omaha Nebraska. I had a wonderful childhood that my mother and father worked their butts off to give me. I will never forget what my family has done for us over the years and what my family had to go through to get to the point we are at today.

Gauhari (Gu-har-ee) originates from Persia meaning “jewel” or “gem”. I am proud to have this name passed on to me because my family has gone through trials and tribulations to make a wonderful life for their descendants here in america. My grandmother, Farooka Gauhari was/is the first Afghan women to publish a book here in the states called “Searching For Saleem”. It is a first-person account of the events that happened during the Russian Coup on the Afghan government and I highly recommend that you give it a chance. As stated by a one “Margaret A. Mills”, author of Oral Traditions in Afghanistan: The Individual in Transition, “Ms.Gauhari’s writing voice is powerful… Nothing like this memoir exists in printing and it is an essential contribution to modern Afghan history”.

Searching For Saleem: An Afghan Women’s Odyssey

Currently is no longer being published, so getting ahold of a copy may be difficult, but the printing rights are with the family, so it’ll be back soon! :)

I pull more than a lot of encouragement from my grandmother and the memories of he life, and the times we’ve spent together. I want to do nothing but make her and the rest of my family proud.

If you’d like to know more in regards to that story I’d love to tell it, but in a different post perhaps.

Anyways, I first picked up a camera around 2014, right out of high school. I would do what any first time camera owner did and took my dogs out to nature and capture the wildlife that I saw and did my best to compose interesting depictions of the world through my lens.

This art… this way of capturing life around me fascinated my soul and I wanted to know more. So after bouncing around from major to major in college I decided to pursue more knowledge about this, about photography. I secured my degree in Photography and began my journey as a photographer. My family was always supportive of my choices no matter how wishy washy I was. And believe me I get a lot of ideas and some pan out, but most I didn’t follow through with. I can say I am disappointed in some of the choices I’ve made by not following through with some things, but reflecting on where I was compared to where I am today I’d say it worked out for the best.

I am 28 years old now, with a lot of life ahead of me. I have a drop dead gorgeous wife now. Been married for over a year now to my love Jami Lynn Houser and we have four wonderful fur babies. Jami was and still is the catalyst for my career and going full time with this business. It has taken a lot of different shapes and names from then to now, but inevitably morphed into what it needed to be. Gauhari Productions is the culmination of my learnings, and desires and will be forever changing as time goes on. Heck, I already have the name figured out for my future studio that I will own… “Gem Studios”, if you can make a quick call back to what my last names means I think its pretty good if I do say so myself haha :), but that is going to take some time to bring to the light of day.

Now, now. I know I’m rambling, but I will close with this. There have been so many people in my life whom I give praise to for pushing me to be a better version of myself. My mother June Gauhari, my father Ed Gauhari, my sister Jennifer Gauhari, my wife and of course my grandmother. They have all, in their own ways bettered my soul, and have shown me so many things and I will forever be grateful for that.

I am forever grateful to the life that I live and cannot wait for the future. Thank you for giving me everything I could ever want, I love you all very dearly. And thank you reader, for lending me your time and support as well. I hope to get to work with you in the future! :)

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