The Wapping Project Bankside has selected a body of work representing several series over the period 2006-2012. The range of Kowsari’s photography reflects the reality of modern Iranian society, whether it is dealing with the aftermath of conflict, being constrained by gender inequality, addressing notions of masculinity or confronting the raw elements of this exceptional country – water, earth, light.
Kowsari’s work is balanced somewhere between documentary photography and fine art – his saturated colours, delicate washes, and refined emotional content sit alongside his wry commentaries, and distanced characters, playing out scenes within his frames like actors caught in a Brechtian drama. All are tangled in the web of history, moments stilled in time, events which one day will be reflected upon as “then”, “in those days”.
When: 23/01/15 to 28/02/15
Where: The Wapping Project Bankside – Ely House, 37 Dover St – London