TITLE: Water branches

As real as water is, it does create the most abstract works of art with branches, clips and shapes that exist, dance and die in split seconds. To take a photograph of these unreal reality creates the fake sense of getting hold of something that vanished. Indeed, the game just starts right here: observing the flickers makes the spectator'mind dance. Is this real water anymore? Borders between reality and abstraction disappear and open a new horizon, new imagination, new reality.

AUTHOR: Basim Ghomorlou (Germany)

Basim Ghomorlou, born in 1984, is an Iranian photographer who focuses on Nature and Social Documentary. His dominantly back and white photographs include digital work; however, his specialty is analog photography.

Since 2000 he has traveled Iran’s nature, urban and rural areas to capture a country in transition. His work was shown in solo exhibitions in the Iranian Artists’ Forum (Khane Honarmandan) Tehran, the Isfahan Museum of Contemporary Art and galleries around the country. In 2011 he was the first photographer to organize a photo exhibition in a remote village in Khorasan, where he has taken photographs regularly for ten years.

In 2016 he moved to Germany and continues his projects in Europe. He exhibited his works in Brussels, Strasbourg, Venice, and Bonn among other places.

His work has been honored by IPA Awards, ND Awards, Monovisions Awards, and Glanzlichter Awards among others.

Basim Ghomorlou is a member of the National Iranian Photographers’ Society and Khorasan Photographers’ Society.