from the artist

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For me photography essentially translates to painting with light. My approach is radical in the sense that I am fascinated with the nature of seeing itself. For while the outer eye refracts and assembles the light, the inner eye continuously interprets and reassembles every aspect of this fragmented light through a highly evolved relationship. In this sense, seeing is no more than life observing and relating to itself. In the process, photography, much like painting, acquires not only the urge to discriminate, interpret and record, but in the end, to induce the viewer to gaze back at the photographer. The very mystery embedded in the photograph makes us want to look at it. It is this confined, veiled and subliminal quality that informs the very character of the photographic image, impregnating it with shifting layers of interpretation and emotive energy. The resulting image, while it lives on independent of the photographer, holds within itself the interiority of the artist much like a memory or a songline.

 

My photographs capture and record the evanescent and the ephemeral universe as I experience it from one moment to the next. It is through this interplay of fluidity and suspension, this unmitigated perception and aesthetic tension, that the artist and the viewer confront one another in that sublimated light, outside temporality, as the gaze momentarily dissolves into the infinitude that haunts the photographic image.

 

 

                                                                        Farzan