It’s a pleasure to host one of the successful photographers of Iran, Mr. Hamed Mousavi Nejad, who possess uncountable honors in photography. Would you mind introducing yourself to familiarize our audiences with you?

When and how did you enter the photography world? 

My interest in the recording of personal perspective dates back to many years ago to my teenagehood time. In fact, my activities in chiaroscuro were the rising point to enter the art world. Some years later, I engaged myself in oil painting and benefited from colors in my works. I continued my artistic activities until the birth of cell phones equipped with was a practical option, a camera. It allowed me to record my desirable personal views of the surrounding environment and offer them to my relatives. I had an opportunity for an external trip in 2013, and I believed  I should take high-quality photographs in distinctive geography, so I decided to prepare a camera the night before my trip.

I recorded many photographs with my first camera, and success in national and international photography competitions encouraged me to pursue photography earnestly. I did my best to promote my knowledge in photography and improved my works’ equality by observing photographs of notable photographers, participating in photography courses, and  endless studying and practicing.

What is your goal of taking photographs?

Photography fills my body with pleasure and indescribable joy. Indeed photography boosts my delicacy, concentration, and sensitivity to details and the surrounding environment’s beauty. I am happy to record and share my perspectives with others and offer them a positive sense. I look forward to having a considerable effect on the universe and human beings by recording and presenting my attitudes.

Do you follow a particular style in photography? Does it change over time?

Most times, I am involved in nature photography, and it is worth mentioning that wildlife photography navigated me to take professional photographs. I have acquired unique, lovely, and exciting experiences in recording wildlife photographs. wildlife photography genre works in national and International festivals provided me with success and intensified my eagerness to tour in nature, camouflaging, waiting, and recording photographs of wildlife in migrating birds.

The chance of living with people of different nations across the planet and unavoidable social relationships invited me to experience documentary photography. I tried to crop and focus on particular points and less-considered social messages in daily life and highlight them so tangible to attract audiences’ attention compellingly and differently and bring these concepts into the center.

Many festivals and exhibitions have been the host of your works, which one of them is more appealing for you?

I prefer a collection of photographs that ordinary people cannot see its frame, visual effects, and the intended concepts of a particular topic. I handpick photographs that possess excellent compilation, lines, points, rhythms, motion, proportion, proper balance, harmony, and the power of conducting content to involve audiences’ mind and eyes movements.

You travel to various parts of the world with different geography and culture; do you think that artwork is under the influence of the mental and living conditions of the artist?

Certainly, the mental and living conditions of each person lead to personal attitude, perspective, and finally, unique and peculiar performance and Influence. Living in any situation generates incomparable and extraordinary experiences. Artists and especially photographs are equipped with the arm of unmatched expert, technique, and perspective to offer their views, beliefs, and experiences to audiences. Sharing and illustrating photographs from an artistic viewpoint help people encounter new experiences and angles that never happened before. It is a fantastic event for human beings who live in unparalleled geography and situation.

Do you think that audiences are free to interpret an artwork, or it must be understood as the artist Desiree?

Art possesses mental nature, and it bears in mind. Art holds notable features, including metaphysical, mental, freedom, and liberation, so its limitation is meaningless. The goal of creating art is delivering a concept or meaning to audiences, and its cornerstone is imagination and creativity. Human beings are unique persons with unexampled thoughts, contemplation, experiences, and beliefs. Artwork’s creator is a unique mind with unique properties which create a piece of art concerning his goals, desires, and knowledge. The uniqueness of the mind provides the possibility of reacting to artwork. Each person interprets the work according to their viewpoint, so the artwork comes into being to challenge the mind and tap at the audiences’ aesthetic sense. Artworks are the products of a free and creative mind so that people can interpret them personally.

What are your favorite activities except for photography?

I believe that different art fields have similar roots, birthplace, and extraordinary features, and the interrelationship connections please and affect me to see, investigate and explore them. I have many experiences in designing, painting, documentary director, music, speech, rhetoric, and narration.

What is an impressive artwork, and what are its features? 

I think that the backbone of human beings is feeling and emotion, and perception and appraising these features affect the creation of an impressive piece of art. Artwork should the results from the artists’ emotions to influence the audience’s senses. A famous Iranian proverb says, ” whatever comes out of heart no doubt  appeals to the heart.” Everybody is equal with a viewpoint, looking, and opinion, so human beings are different in interest but the same in emotion.

Would you please elaborate on your art and artistic style as a conclusion?

My artworks impinge upon my thoughts, beliefs, experiences, aesthetics, views of the environment, social and cultural issues, technical information, inner feelings, and personal goals. I do not follow a particular style due to the factors mentioned earlier. It is worth mentioning that the works of the world’s notable artists have inspired me with different styles for photography and other artistic activities. This inspiration includes an expansive domain as great as the world, God’s beautiful nature, earth, sky, and whatever I live across.