Amean J [b Karachi (Pakistan), 1974] graduated with a BFA in Photography from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 1997. In 1998, he founded 18% grey [photography studio] in Karachi. In 2005, he completed his MA in Media, Culture & Technology from the University of Bedfordshire.

Amean was the programme in-charge and an Assistant Professor for the Post Graduate Diploma in Photography at the Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture since its inception in 2010 till 2012.

Amean has published 4 books and his work has been featured in several other titles and publications. With several exhibitions to his credit, his work is in private collections as well as installed in various institutions, including the new International Airport in Islamabad.

He is a founding board member and presently President at the Citizens Archive of Pakistan.