Pouya Parsmagham
Pouya Parsmagham Blind Spot
The unusual protagonists of Pouya Parsmagham’s snapshots are steeped in the ordinary: a sunken chair in a swimming pool, broken glass on the floor, a collection of pills, medicine scattered on the pavement, and other such neglected traces of human activity.
Equipped with his camera, Parsmagham is guided by spontaneity, which forms his core photographic methodology. A sudden interesting observation that makes him want to turn his head, can turn into a new photograph. Within his frame, Parsmagham allows for chance to happen, resulting in photographs with surprising compositions and peculiar lighting. In a sense, he carefully observes the world around him, and captures it without intervening, according agency to the environment.
The resultant randomness and the stillness are two of the prominent qualities that characterize Parsmagham’s photos and form the basis of his interest in photography.
The resultant randomness and the stillness are two of the prominent qualities that characterize Parsmagham’s photos and form the basis of his interest in photography.
The work of Pouya Parsmagham is part of the group exhibition Space to Breathe, curated by Newsha Tavakolian and on display in the Grote Kerk Breda.
His film Gesture will be screened as part of BredaPhoto’s film program Cinema of Dreams.
Pouya Parsamagham
Pouya Parsamagham (b. 1981, Tehran, Iran) graduated from the University of Applied Science and Technology with a degree in filmmaking and graphic design. He began his career as a filmmaker in 2006, with short films, and his first feature film, Gesture, premiered in 2019. His latest film, Du Rocher Rouge is a documentary based on the well-known Iranian poet Yadollah Royaee.
Location: Grote Kerk
Cinema of Dreams: Gesture by Puya Parsamagham
On the occasion of BredaPhoto Festival, BredaPhoto and Chassé Cinema are together organising a serie of film evenings: Cinema of Dreams. Following Theatre of Dreams the themes of hope and change are central. On Sunday 11 September Cinema of Dreams presents Contramaré by Daniel Marenco and Gesture by Pouya Parsamagham. Click here for more information.