• Alborz Kazemi

    Photographer & Videographer

Alborz Kazemi

About Alborz Kazemi

Alborz (b. 1989, Tehran, Iran) studied painting at Tehran’s School of Fine Arts. After his graduation, he became more interested in photography and cinema and most of his works have been photography-based.

2005-2007: High School , Honarestan Kamal-ol Molk, Fine Arts
2008-2009: Compact course in cinematography and photography, Young Cinematography Center.

Exhibitions

2019. Encounter/Encounter, Dastan Electricroom, Tehran, Iran
2019. Image Corpus, Dastan Basement Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2019. Iran Photo (Inside & Outside) Badgir Foundation, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2017. Pieces of Body, Dastan Electricroom, Tehran, Iran
2010. The Silence, No.6 Art Gallery, Tehran
2017. Iran Anne’ 38, Arles Photo Festival, Arles, France
2015. Bedtime Stories, Silk road Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2014. Encounter, Abi Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2013. A View of the Documentary Photograohy, Silk road Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2009. Tasvir-e-Sal , Annual exhibition, Tehran, Iran
2008. Tasvir-e-Sal , Annual exhibition, Tehran, Iran

ENCOUNTER Alborz Kazemi

Encounter / Encounter

Dastan is pleased to announce Alborz Kazemi’s “Encounter/Encounter” at the former location of Electric Room. The exhibition will open to public viewing on October 11, 2019 and continues through October 18.

In the current project, the artist presents a series of images to engage the viewer in dichotomies.
Part of the project consists of videos and images the artist captured during the past two years in Mosul (Iraq) after it was cleared of ISIS fighters.
These depict an apocalyptic situation that despite their silence, portray war, destruction and instability.
These images that are formed “around war” as the artist puts it, are shown besides images of an inner setting, of the last days of the life of the artist’s grandfather.
In the second series, the viewer does not encounter direct references to death, but faces small details with deep innuendos. Encountering both series, we face sides of an event, in an intimate way.
Alborz Kazemi’s perspective and tone make a personal event a collective issue, and vice versa.
Additionally, the presence of the camera and the way the subjects encounter it, adds new layers to the artist and the viewer’s observations.

Pieces of Body

“Pieces of Body” includes six projections of photographs using enlarger heads in a dark room. The photos are images of Alborz’s hand-made photo-based collages and by projecting them using this technique, the artist aims to show a three-dimensional sculpture-like installation. The flat images, depicting the human body, become “beams of light” and “almost immaterial”, showing multi-layered explorations.

“Pieces of Body” includes six projections of photographs using enlarger heads in a dark room. The photos are images of Alborz’s hand-made photo-based collages and by projecting them using this technique, the artist aims to show a three-dimensional sculpture-like installation. The flat images, depicting the human body, become “beams of light” and “almost immaterial”, showing multi-layered explorations.

Comradeship

Comradeship

Comradeship

What catches the eyes first in Alborz Kazemi’s photos is a simple accidental moment. In fact his photos can be called “Snapshot”. With his use of unpredictable aesthetics of snapshot both in form and content, we are encountered with uncertainty. In the photos of Comradeship, we can trace an internal, personal and sometimes poetic approach which is far different from journal photography, but still the photos are like reportage of lives of a group of youth who unlike the majority spend their times in private spaces.

In “Comradeship” the photographer as the subject is the object of its photography, that is to say the subject is a part of the object. He pictures moments of life we have all experienced, real pictures with emotions. There is nothing predetermined in the photos. A kind of playfulness somewhere that is nowhere, it is a moment. A moment not very special, a moment of everyday life.