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Mehdi Sharafi
BA in Photography, Semnan Art University
Collector: Amirbahador Bayat
This project entitled “Dream” is inspired by my own dreams. Its idea came to my mind last year and I started to create the series. However, many of the images were not shot last year. It was as if I had the conflict with the theme of dreaming in my subconscious mind and I was taking similar photos even before I thought of such idea, that had an inseparable link with this series.
When I checked my archive again, I found the similarity between these images and so I could complete this collection better by putting these images. I tried to depict them based on my own dreams. The Photographs were first in color, then I made them black and white, and finally reversed them into negatives, and added some grains. I tried to bring them close to the story of the dreams and give them a specific meaning. Like the image of a cloud in the middle of whiteness, the cloud that is now black. Black clouds are a sign of rain, but its smallness among that whiteness makes it dreamy for me and creates an ambiguity, reflecting the fear I have towards my dreams. In lots of other images I also tried to use some signs to raise questions for the audience and involve him in the image.
In this series I tried to achieve a kind of aimlessness and incompleteness in the images and reach a conclusion from reading the photos. The series does not end with these shots and still continues. It has been a year now, just like my every night dreams.