About the Photographer
Amir Farokhpour is a photographer based in Toronto, Canada. Farokhpour graduated from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada with a Bachelors of Fine Arts with a major in photography.
By applying abstraction, Farokhpour creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.
His photos doesn’t reference recognizable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. By exploring the concept of landscape in psychological way, he investigates the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination.
His works directly respond to the surrounding environment and uses everyday experiences from the artist as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context. With a conceptual approach, he tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way, likes to involve the viewer in a way that is sometimes physical and believes in the idea of function following form in a work.
Amir’s works establish a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its conceiver. These works focus on concrete questions that determine our existence. Amir Farokhpour currently lives and works in Toronto.
