The two-man photo show by Vahid Dashtyari and Mehdi Khandan is about alternative photographic processes, namely gelatin silver and cyanotype, to record reality: One is seeking to recover the lost spirit of photography and revert something fake to its original form, while the other is searching for the lost soul of the city, changing something authentic to a counterfeit.
Mehdi Khandan’s “Like No Other” series signifies a critical juncture where people interact with each other as well as with symbols and places in the city of Tehran, in which subjects, discouraged by daily dealings, evade the logic of urban life, while they seek to control and simultaneously keep their distance as they roam around the city.
n his “The Pencil of Lie” series, Vahid Dashtyari seeks to find the lost spirit of authenticity in photography and highlight the photography’s uniqueness to images that seem to be banal, bogus, and stale. The title alludes to Henry Fox Talbot’s The Pencil of Nature, emphasizing the vanity of Instagram images.
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