Fixed
A study in permanence
- Mixed analog formats, studio still life
- Tehran studio
- 2024
The newest and most conceptual of the series: still-life photographs of objects mid-transformation (a bronze pour caught in motion, wax melting under heat, a print curling as it dries), each one an image of impermanence, paradoxically made permanent by the act of photographing it.
The title is a small joke Hooman allows himself: “fixed” is also the name of the final chemical bath that makes a photograph permanent. This series is about everything that refuses to hold still, held still anyway.
Molten bronze mid-pour, caught by flash