Mohammad Sorkhabi, known professionally as “Sorkhe”,
Is an Iranian fine art photographer born in 1985 in Mashhad, Iran.
He grew up around art. His mother collected paintings, his father kept a number of old film cameras around, and somewhere between those two worlds he became drawn to Renaissance and Romantic painting. That interest never really left.
Since 2015, his work has been shown in exhibitions and competitions in Canada, Italy, the UAE, the UK, France, and the United States. He lives and works in Tehran, Iran.
His photographs sit somewhere between classical painting and something more modern and psychological. He does not usually begin with a fixed message. Most of the time, it starts with a feeling, an image in his head, and he works from there. He is not trying to tell the viewer what to think; the meaning is left open.
A lot of his work circles around memory, time, consciousness, and the strange gap between presence and absence. It is often moody, a little gothic, and dreamlike in the way old and contemporary elements share the same frame.