About Wasim

Utilizing the mediums of photography, video and virtual reality, Wasim hopes to bring each client’s unique visions to life through stimulating and engaging visual assets. The primary motivation of the eyes through which he sees is to enrich people’s lives by nurturing their curiosities about the inspiring world we inhabit.

“There is beauty everywhere. All the time. Every day. All around us. Always.
And I hope to capture some of those moments.
And share them with you.”

In my words:

I was born in Nazareth (yes, that Nazareth). 

I grew up in L.A.

I started out making images. 

Then I went to college, made images, and played records. 

Then I graduated from college and started working for a record label.

Then record labels went kaput.

Then I wrote for magazines, mostly music and music production magazines.

Then I started publishing a music, arts and politics newsstand magazine.

Then the print industry went kaput.

Then I then spent half a decade making corporate videos for very big companies like Gap and Mattel.

That had to stop.

I love toys and clothes, but edit caves are dark.

And I like sun.

I moved into the hills, went to work for a marijuana magazine, and helped open an organic cafe in Santa Barbara.

Then the economy went kaput...and the cafe, and the magazines, and my mind, with it.

So then I started volunteering at the State Parks. 

And then I started hugging trees.

And then I started traveling more.

And then I started making images again.

Life is funny like that.

In someone else’s words:

“Wasim is a media professional involved in everything from print publications to video production. He began his career writing for various Primedia and Conde Nast publications before founding a national newsstand print publication featuring everyone from Hunter S Thompson’s renown artist Ralph Steadman to influential political and philanthropic personalities including Congressman Henry Waxman and The Sierra Club’s founder Carl Pope.

His attentive eye for detail and keen editorial sense led him to spend several years as a Senior Editor and Creative Director, producing and editing award-winning marketing and commercial videos and corporate media packages for Fortune 500 companies including Gap, Mattel, and Warner Brothers, featuring everyone from Heidi Klum and Tiger Woods to Common & Beyonce.

In addition to his property photography business Pro Property Photos, Wasim currently creates photography and video assets for clients including Airbnb, 500px.com Studio, Ecology in Classrooms & Outdoors (ECO), Deschutes Land Trust, Trivago Hotels, Drift 101, VectorMount for GoPro, the World Forestry Center, The National Park Service, California State Parks, and the PTTOW influencer marketing summit, an annual event bringing together global power players from Quincy Jones to the Dalai Lama. He was also one of 50 sponsored Samsung Camera Imageloggers, making him a brand ambassador some of today’s most innovative still and virtual reality imaging systems. He was also recently featured by Snappr as one of the highest-rated photographers in Portland!

Muklashy also helped co-found an organic cafe in Santa Barbara, California, and has done media work for The Annenberg Foundation, USC’s Marshall Schools Of Business’ Social Innovation program, and award-winning producer and TEDx presenter Frank Fitzpatrick’s Earthtones foundation, dedicated to ‘transforming the human spirit through the power of music and film,’ including an interactive digital publication designed for the arts and music curriculum for the nation’s schools.

Wasim has found himself busy speaking at events including Amazon.com & DPReview.com's PIX2015, Social Media Week, Samsung Developer Conference, and Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Conference about the power of photography, video and storytelling. He is also the co-founder of superswell VR, a virtual reality company specializing in immersive storytelling for the outdoor and travel industry.

Muklashy currently devotes much of his time to various humanitarian and environmental causes, and has served as a volunteer docent in the California State Park System, where he self-tasked himself to develop original multimedia assets to help bring more attention to our underfunded protected public spaces. He recently served as Communications Coordinator for the Rotary Action Group for Peace and the board of Ecology In Classrooms & Outdoors, a non-profit dedicated to connecting students to the natural world and "building science literacy and environmental awareness” and currently serves on the Steering Committee of Earth Day Oregon.

Most recently, Wasim became part owner of Alpaca by Design, a retail store in Sisters, Oregon that specializes in alpaca product, and is one of the founders of The Original Alpaca Picnics Experience. Yes, a picnic…with alpacas. This was a direct result of life during, and after, the pandemic, in which Muklashy found solace through working with alpacas in Central Oregon with Amanda VandenBosch of Flying Dutchman Alpacas, one of the world’s premiere alpaca programs.

Finally, as a recovering broadcast news veteran, he’s realized the importance of combating the constant negativity with stories and news about why we’re living in the most awesome times ever, so started The Future Is Pretty Rad, a site dedicated to science, sustainability, design and tacos, to help spread that information.

He spends whatever time he has left documenting the surrounding parks and landscapes and open spaces through photography."