To begin with, I have to clarify my most prominent aspiration which is to portray an intimate yet realistic image of an Iranian middle-class family and meanwhile attempt to avoid clichés and mawkishness. To attain this target, I chose to capture every possible constituent of different members of my family’s activities on every weekend to delineate a hypothetical unification of patterns and routines.
My Siblings are all married or have moved out to live independently, therefore it’s the greatest pleasure for my parents to see them all together once a week, even though most of them are now parents themselves and might get rather preoccupied with their own lives. My mother, the pillar of the community, believes that even the absence of one piece results in dysfunctionality of the whole system. Thus, she counts us each week prancing through the entrance door. The weekend ceremony has its own rituals which remains rather vague though. Had it been obligatory to name the lifestyle pictured in my work, there wouldn’t be any phrase more pertinent that the Latin “Carpe Diem”.
This project hitherto includes more than 3000 shots, not to mention that my crucial approach is neither be perceived nor distinguished as a visible photographer. Every reunion brings with itself an amalgam of paradoxical yet marvelous sentiments, as I am born into them and they are born into me.