Ali Tahayori: Archival Longing, 2024

Archive of Longing searches for moments of vulnerability, love and belonging within an inherited family archive, glimpses that often escape the photographer’s gaze and the subject’s agenda. The family photographs are cropped, enlarged, digitally altered and then printed on glass sheets. The printed glass is broken and reassembled to create 3D sculptural reliefs from 2D vintage photographs. The personal becomes the universal, as information is removed from photos through abstraction, fragmentation and distortion provided by raised broken printed glass

Photograph: Roya Khadjavi Projects/ Nemazee Fine Art