'𝖗 𝖆 𝖛 𝖊 𝖓

ˈ𝖙 𝖍 𝖞 𝖒 𝖔 𝖚 𝖗 𝖓 𝖎 𝖆
/'𝖕𝖍𝖔𝖙𝖔𝖌𝖗𝖆𝖕𝖍𝖊𝖗 /'𝖆𝖚𝖙𝖍𝖔𝖗 /'𝖕𝖔𝖘𝖙-𝖆𝖕𝖔𝖈𝖆𝖑𝖞𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖈 '𝖊𝖝𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖓𝖈𝖊
'𝔱 𝔥 𝔢 '𝔯 𝔞 𝔳 𝔢 𝔫

ــعلیــ ــشیخــ الاــسلامیــ'
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/'𝖍 𝖔 𝖒 𝖊

/...“Ali Sheikhaleslami” known as “Thymournia” is the pseudonym of a photographer & an author born in 1984, Tabriz - Iran. Travelling through and living in Iran, Azerbaijan Republic, Turkey, Syria, Croatia and some other countries he develops a clear interest in stories, memories, portraits and conceptual imagery. Extremely versatile (expert in analogue & digital photography), since 2001, he has been focusing on strong and exclusively melancholic monochrome imagery and poetry, representing life in its most foggy, mysterious and ancestral atmospheres, surrounded by a curtain of lights, shadows and smoke that becomes almost tangible, inside which fragile and wounded human figures dwell, at the complete mercy of life: the most cruel coincidence of all. In each image, there is a story.. of him/her. He inquires into the bonds connecting people from all over the world, who share, in spite of their own different real-life experiences, the common, miserable condition of being a human on this earth. This is how his longest project, called “So Close Yet So Far” was born, with more than 700 attendants. It’s a precious achievement that contains real life people but all behind the screens of... deep within life and nothing more... No further explanation: just leaf through and read these eternal “visual memories” and the words connected to them, letting yourself go into the deepest inner feelings that all try to avoid, and tasting your own personal solitude, just like his own, just like everybody else’s. He had two exhibitions In Milan, Italy (One Man Show in “Spaziofarini6 Gallery”, photos in “Milan Photo Festival”,
one of the biggest photography events in Europe from September till October 2015, and a Solo Show in Tehran & Tabriz, Iran) presenting a series entitled
“Forgotten” & “Endless elegies of a Raven”.
/..All the taken photos, written words and poems are inspired by sorrows, darkened memories, sadness, desperation, mostly personal and also witnessing the... around and in the lives of all the people that he got to know during his entire life, that even now it hurts. All comes from a dark past and a blank future. Photography & Poetry are the reasons to live, to capture, to breathe within and to inspire. We will fade away, and our shattered existence is no more. We live once, and we die every day, a proof of our fragile lives. Every step in our lifetime has its own story of our failures and our dreams dying, every passing moment which we have never lived. It's all about immortalizing the moments as they fade, as we wither away.”