This was my first project at GoldSmiths University, I started photography in London with my friends. While shooting with placards, I was imagining a time before the pandemic how we felt at that time observing the quirks of human nature and how has each person dealt with this issue?
For me was a hard experience, I lost one of my cousins and this was the beginning of a fabrication different & vague emotions.
One of the main issues that has changed the face of the city is wearing a mask and this is an issue that can not be ignored. By wearing a mask, we lose part of our identity especially when all the people of the world have double emotions and this creates internal
confusions.
To communicate with people, we must be aware of their feelings and due the pandemic we can not see the interaction of people.
For this project, I started photographing everyone live with in our campus, and I asked them to pose with different emotions, In a sense this gesture was a reaction of me in a mirror, telling my story after hearing the news of pandemic and my resolve for amplify my project.
This is first poster of the OUT THERE project the bottom layer is from my image before this pandemic combined with the surface image which is my state now (mask)
In the second poster, I worked on the individuality of people, by using the technique of collage. I displayed all of these emotions in one place. Also I used the poems of the great Iranian poet Saadi.
‘’All human beings are in truth, like body parts, akin, all in creation share one origin.’’
‘’When fate allots a Member pangs & pain no ease for other member then remain.’’
The third poster is modeled similar to the second poster,
Humans beings are members of a whole In creation of one essence & soul, If one member is afflicted with pain Other members uneasy will remain
In the fourth poster, I tried to be a mirror of the past that conducts different people to the present and reminds myself that even with a face mask, we are still the same people.
If you have no sympathy for human pain thou are not worthy of the name of men.
In the next slide, I tried to convey different emotions by collaging to these portrait ...
In this life, if you are alone in a corner of isolation and only hear the echo of your voice. You cannot discover the truth. it is only in the mirror of another human being that you can see yourself as perfect.
And nally, in the last slide, I did not use mask because I believe that although it is late, we will finally pass this stage.
BAHAREH HATAMI
