the black snapper

Humans is devoted to life, death, people and the relations between them and, of course, to loneliness. I was influenced by a poem by Bijan Jalali, the Iranian poet:

the living is impossible
but we are still here
with ambitions of everything
and we go and we come

In my mind the location in the Humans series is a kind of utopia, a non-descript town. A place unknown to all. It is a stage that becomes a metaphor for life. People are coming, staying for a while, talking, standing, sitting, playing, doing what they must do. and then they leave the stage.

Michael Kenna: Mohammadreza Mirzaei photographs with precision and dispassion. Setting up his camera at a distance, he sees and records anonymous people,
”humans,” making cameo appearances, alone or in groups, frozen against backdrops of expansive and empty white skies.



We can view Mr. Mirzaei’s photographs literally, as pure documents of
 time passing in a specific place at various given moments. Life goes on,
people come and go, interact, continue on their separate ways, and the land and sky always remain.

We can also look a little deeper and interpret the images allegorically, as a comment or exploration of the nature of our human
 condition.

Mr. Mirzaei, with reserved sensibility, kindly provides us
 with an opportunity to quietly reflect and consider the reasons for our 
existence.