Photography

Shahriar Mazandi’s photographic essays on California’s automotive  and gang cultures were syndicated across the world in 2000 by Katz Pictues/Camera Press.

Venturing beyond painting and photography, in 2005 came a collaboration with French glass manufacturer Lalique, resulting in the Lalique Garden that won a gold medal at the Chelsea Flower Show.

In 2008 Harrow School hosted ‘Harrovian Photographers throughout the Ages from William Henry Fox Talbot to Cecil Beaton to Patrick Lichfield to today’s photographers. Mazandi had more works on display than any living photographer.

Photography of fire began in 2009. In 2012 these were mirrored six times on Photoshop, resembling Rorschach ink blot tests. Unlike the tesseract paintings these works have no fixed point of reference. What is observed is subject to the perception of the viewer. Some might see skeletal structures, distorted anatomy or impossible zoological forms - whatever is in the mind’s eye of the viewer.

More recent portfolios include conventional photography that relies on poetry and also work that relies on a technique that resembles what was known as solarisation in the time of analogue film. These offer a threshold to another place, like Alice walking through the looking glass - a doorway to alternate realms.