Fahad Sulehria is an amateur astronomer, astronomical artist and web designer from Sweden. He’s a member of the International Association of Astronomical Artists and is represented by Stocktrek Images, a leading stock photography agency. While Sulehria has a great interest in graphic arts, 3 Dimensional modeling and web design, his main interest is astronomical art and astronomy since the age of 6. Sulehria strives to portray our universe with a great detail of scientific accuracy and he has been an active amateur astronomer for long. He sees astronomical and space art as an accompaniment to real astronomical photos that are taken by telescopes. Based on knowledge in chemistry, physics, astronomy and other sciences, the space/astronomical artist can illustrate environments from moments and views that cannot be caught as easily through pictures today (if possible), because the present technology does not allow us to.
Sulehria studied software engineering for about 2 years, at college level, and Multimedia Engineering for two and a half years at the University of Lund, Sweden (which he had to drop due to an emergency from his family). Along with that, he has taught himself about space and its' wonders since he was a boy. He has a website called Nova Celestia where viewers can find space art and astronomical illustrations, portraying the Universe, accompanied by astronomical information. The viewers can view some of the amazing images of what the Universe looks like. Through his website, his aim is to illustrate the immensity of the Universe through digital media.
