Statement:

Old photos turn people into objects. They are mummified memories. In such photos, humans are  like absent affairs, yet present. Acting in between absence and presence is the feature of each  photo.

Each face promises its presence at the time and the place. Old photos more precisely  represent this acting in between presence and absence, just as photos of the people we know, or  family albums - which indicate who is not present anymore -do. 

Khosravi has de-objecified photos of humans, leaving out the exotic viewpoint toward the past. He  has resurrected the ghosts of the past time in these old photos.

The aim is not solely to represent  the same past photos through a painting technique. Painter's technique serves to ghosts present in  historical photos.

They are not considered as a historical document in these paintings. The painter  leaves aside the documentary aspect of photos, giving them a non-historical soul. 

Amir Nasri