This series of photographs is the result of a complete reconsideration of myself. An internal quest started four years ago, which led me to become a photographer. Then I had an inner quest to know what kind of photographer I was. Then, one day, I understood what I wanted to transmit. What is going on deep inside me, in my guts? These photos are a sweet mix of rough and soft. Sweet and trash. A contrast of black and white, which shows the two states in which I find myself. These photos tend to show sometimes the brutality of our life, through the tears, the dirt that we are put in our paths, but also moments of sweetness and poetry through a ray of sunshine, a light that springs from nowhere or, again, the plant in the middle of a concrete landscape. This duality inhabits the world; it lives in me. The contrast between two atmospheres, two feelings that oppose each other without nuance.

About

Born in Lausanne in 1985, I am Swiss of Iranian origin and a young father. After studying law and completing a PhD thesis, I started photography in 2018 in a self-taught way. Partly occupied by commercial mandates and reportages, I devote most of my time to personal photographic projects. For me, photography is a tool for introspection. Also, I have the impression that photography allows me to switch from a very rational world to a universe of all possibilities. To be able to create without limits, to bring poetry into my daily life and, who knows, into the everyday life of others. Above all, this medium allows my sensitivity to express itself and gives me the space to create and tell the stories I want in a few images. I am particularly inspired by vernacular photography. I like to photograph what surrounds me: our daily life, its banality. I love to find the detail around me that hits the mark. For example, I did a whole series in my apartment about the arrival of my daughter in my life and her impact on our environment. I like to see the beauty in simple things, sometimes invisible to the naked eye, telling the story of objects or people. To bring out the beauty even where we can’t see it.