What are the major themes you pursue in your work?
I specialize in creating emotionally dense and endlessly compelling photographs of women; photographs, which capture ephemeral moments of feminine emotions flowing through time. Instead of taking photos, which reflect reality, I use the camera as a tool to paint women’s emotions, while creating that mystic world that exists between dreams and reality during the post-processing phase. As reality plays hide-and-seek with fantasy, it’s a reflection of those volatile moods etched in the permanent state of change. Due to my avid admiration for classic European paintings, I also try to add a touch of these Old Masters’ pieces to each photograph through vivid colors and a painterly feeling.
Additionally, my works are inspired by spirituality, philosophy, classic literature, and Persian mystic poetry. I guess all of this together is reflected in my works.
How did you first get interested in your medium, and what draws you to it specifically?
I admire beauty in all aspects, especially the kind of beauty that provokes and seduces you mentally, flirts with your soul and makes love with your spirit. What draws me to photography specifically is that taking photos feels like painting your feelings visually. Photography has such a unique ability of immortalizing that one moment in time that will disappear forever, hence it possesses the rare beauty of eternity and infinity.
For me, being an artist is a great gift you give to yourself – the gift of living your emotions to the fullest, of burning all your heart and passion, of exposing even your vulnerability and deepest fears into the process of creating art. In a sense, creating art and falling in love mean the same thing. True art comes from your own soul, your being, way of life and your desire of leaving part of you to the world every single day, and therefore art is powerful.
