Masood Kamandy
Friday, 20 September 2013
Work from Materialism.
“These photographs are an exploration of materialism and still-life. Materialism’s meaning is multifold. It is a branch of philosophy in which everything is only matter and energy. It can imply consumerism, and many of the objects I photograph are things one will immediately recognize from any drugstore. It is also a reference to the photographic object, or the transition that an object must go through to become a photograph.
Materialism is always inherently in flux in the medium of photography. Objects are changed in the process through a translation effect. The picture is anchored in the real world, but the photograph carries with it a new set of meanings as well. It amplifies. It distorts. It selects. I see photography as a series of steps from the moment the object is selected to the final image. Those steps are my entry points. The basis of my photographic methodology lies in intervention and material transformation whether it’s analog (as in constructing a physical assemblage to photograph), or digital (as in writing a computer program to modify the image). These photographs are my way of exploring materialism’s expansive meaning.” – Masood Kamandy