Autumn day - Limited Edition 2/8 Photograph

Born in Teheran in 1968, Kurosh Rahmanian's lifelong passion for photography began at the age of ten when he received his first camera. He left Iran in 1983 during the Iran-Iraq War to start a new life with his family in Bavaria, Germany. Rahmanian went to study photography in Hamburg.In the years immediately following his studies he predominantly worked as a portrait and fashion photographer. Kurosh Rahmanian's new body of work brings the beauty and inscrutability of the ostensibly banal into focus. He uses the camera to reacquaint us with our surroundings, capturing the flux of everyday life. The resulting images invite us to pause for reflection, exuding a rare calmness in an otherwise hectic world. These latest, large-scale works mark the Iranian-born artist's aesthetic progression from single-framed, black and white portrait photography to more conceptionally challenging photomontages. His meticulous attention to the scale and composition of the final grid-format images reignites our awareness of the overlooked, the transient world. Far from being a constraint, the controlled geometric framework provides Rahmanian with the scope to explore this transience: Freeing the single, static photo images and allowing them to move and flow freely in sequences sends the viewer's thought processes into free-flow. The works take on dreamlike, meditative qualities. Deeply troubled by the manipulative power of television, Rahmanian endeavors to highlight this danger in his own visual medium. His artistic response sees subject matter from the modern world juxtaposed into striking, sometimes disturbing, images that seem to mesmerize the eyes - and the mind.