Amir Esfandiari
This photo series was made during my journey to Hormoz Island, in southern Iran a place where my body felt immediately reconnected to its surroundings. Here, meaning emerges not only through seeing, but through touch: between body and landscape, objects and presence. In a geography where touch is culturally and politically regulated, these images explore touch as a threshold between intimacy and restriction, connection and control.
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Amir Esfandiari (b. 1995, Tehran, Iran) is a writer, researcher, and multidisciplinary artist based in Tehran. He holds a BA in Dramatic Literature from Azad Art and Architecture University and an MA in Performing Arts from the University of Art in Tehran, and is currently a PhD candidate in Art Research. Working across performance, photography, and video, his practice engages with questions of war, surveillance, and memory, often blending theory, narrative, and image. Esfandiari has exhibited in museums and galleries in Iran, and has also published a hand-made artist book combining text and photography.
