Sohrab Hura Read Bio Collapse
Sohrab Hura is a photographer and filmmaker who uses a journal-like practice to look at personal and political systems. His most recent exhibition, “Spill,” is on view at the Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam until December 5, 2021. His curatorial debut, “Static In The Air,” is open at Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai until December 9, 2021.
How do the images (and words) that we create go beyond the spaces in which they came into existence? How can stories cross over from their own bubbles to the other side of a highly polarized world? How can they live, sustain, and even contaminate opposing ideologies—like ink slowly dripping into a glass of water until it turns blue? After all, isn’t this exactly how propaganda has been diffused among the masses by various governments of the past, especially dictatorial ones—in little shifts and triggers and not in explosive events? The parameters of what was considered normal would be quietly stretched out, without us even realizing it. Today these shifts of normalization are seeded in viral images. I am convinced that the photographer today is out of touch with the complete image world.