HORMOZ (Paris, France)
Not For Me
FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2024 Online Gallery

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Hormoz is a photographer and film director. At sixteen, inspired by horror movies, he started making short films and paintings, exploring a parallel world related to dreams and odd atmospheres. He is a self-taught filmmaker and photographer and his university studies focused on literature. He has worked as a photojournalist, covering nightclubbing and other social issues such as the affective life of people with disabilities. He has shown his work at the Maison Internationale de la Photographie, Agnès B, Galerie Rachel Hardouin and other international galleries and festivals. He teaches photography, curates and organizes artistic workshops in Paris suburbs and in prisons. His current work focuses on social issues in a movie about narrative choreography, and a picture book project which he started in 2014 in West Papua, New Guinea.

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The life of the homeless has always moved me. I find appalling the way society judges them. They are mostly excluded, and when engaged, it’s with condescension, sometimes with empathy, but rarely with an appropriate solution to their plight. Certain homeless people are survivors, courageous actors in a nomadic movement, full of a blurred vital energy that usually derives from self-induced altered states. They often carry themselves with a certain strength and dignity, characteristics mostly considered antonymous to their condition. Unfortunately their world lacks any sense of hope. They are resigned, ready to start over and over again, the same journey, by day and by night, wandering with all the other ghostly shadows moving along by their side.

My images are a reflection of this blurry world. My social concerns are there, but in my images I also seek the immaterial, a certain sense of freedom, a path for something beyond. We, the better-off, do not always know what may be a proper solution for the homeless. It’s best to acknowledge our limitations and respect these other rhythms, experiences and small moments of happiness –these different quests.

https://www.hormoz.fr | hormoz.works@gmail.com

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