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My Vision, 2022
von • by Ramin Barzegar

www.raminbarzegar.com

Why not, for a change, fold the world as if it were a piece of paper?

And see what beautiful things may result? The Iranian photogra-

pher Ramin Barzegar does exactly this in his My Vision photo se-

ries – and thus opens a new, completely allusive view of the built

environment. Barzegar has already been around moving around

this environment a lot, he travelled, among other destinations, to

Africa and to the USA, toured the metropolises as a multi-media

journalist and, as a lighting designer, illuminated entire squares,

parks and buildings, above all in his native city ofTeheran. Already

since 1984, Barzegar has documented the numerous travel desti-

nations in pin sharp photographs of architecture and nature and

has already won several prizes with this. For the project shown

here, he was recently given the title Architecture Photographer of

the Year 2022 at the International Photography Awards. Barzegar

shows a kind of architectural photography inspired by the major

creations of technology but freely and imaginatively distorted to

suit his own taste. He abstracts and deforms the smooth façades

of steel, glass and concrete to such a degree that they are given an

almost floral ornamentation. By doing this, the artist not only dis-

covers a new, decorative potential and an unexpected varied

colour spectrum of modern architecture which we often only per-
ceive as grey-in-grey. In addition, he also inspires to newly looking

at the disdainful grid of almost any city: One can turn it, twist it,

distort and squiggle until a new pattern, a rosette or a ribbon is

produced out of it. In any case, an image that is no longer rigid and

fixed – the creation by another person – but one’s completely own,

individually shaped perception of architecture.