Basim Ghomorlou
Since 2000 Basim Ghomorlou (born 1984 in Iran) has traveled Iran’s nature, urban and rural areas to capture a country in transition. His work was shown in solo exhibitions in the Iranian Artists’ Forum (Khane Honarmandan) Tehran, the Isfahan Museum of Contemporary Art and galleries around the country. In 2011 he was the first photographer in Iran to organize a photo exhibition in a remote village in Khorasan, where he has taken photographs regularly for ten years.
2016 he moved to Germany and continues his work in Europe and Iran. Since then he has exhibited his works in Brussels, Strasbourg, Venice, Frankfurt and Iran among other places.
Twice (2018/19) he was nominated for the National Geographic Germany Award “Photographer of the Year”.
In November 2020, his work on the children of the Iranian Gypsies will be exhibited as part of the “State of the World 2020” exhibition of Prix de la Photographie in Paris.
Exhibitions
2020 Espace Beaurepaire, Paris/France, group exhibition: state of the world 2020, curator selection PX3
2019 Ravand Gallery, Mashhad/ Iran, solo exhibition: 120film (+ video art)
2019 Moya Gallery, Bonn/Germany, group exhibition: work space
2019 Museum Koenig, Bonn/Germany, group exhibition: highlights of nature photography
2019 Glaskarrée Gallery, Bonn/Germany, with painter Monique Jacquemin: Contemplate
2018 Monastery Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany, group exhibition: Nature Foto Days at Fürstenfeld
2017 Cinema Galeries, Brussels/Belgium, group exhibition: Expo Téhéran: une ville au pied des montagnes (L’heure d’hiver)
2016 Médiathèque André Malraux, Strasbourg/ France, group exhibition: Tehran – a metropolis
2015 Radin Art Gallery, Mashhad/ Iran, solo exhibition: waters
2012 Artin Art Gallery, Mashhad/Iran, solo exhibition: black/white nature
2011 Golestan Gallery, Mashhad/ Iran, with photographer Majid Bondar-Moghadam: the winds‘ secret
2011 Open air exhibition in the village of Soltan Meydan, Iran, solo exhibition: Soltan Meydan
2009 Artists‘ Forum Iran, Tehran/ Iran, solo exhibition: black/white nature
2019 Museum of Contemporary Art Isfahan, Iran, solo exhibition: black/white nature
2008 Niavaran Gallery, Tehran/Iran, solo exhibition: black/white nature
2007 Golestan Gallery, Mashhad/ Iran, solo exhibition: fine art nature
Recognition
2020 SIPA Siena Photo Awards, shortlist: storytelling
2020 FAPA Fine Art Photography Awards, nominee: photojournalism
2020 Monvisions Awards, honorable mention: series, photojournalism
2019 TIFA Tokyo International Foto Awards, bronze: fine art landscape, series
2019 100 Years Analog Photography Festival, Germany, 8th place
2019 IPA International Photography Awards, honorable mention: professional street photography people
2019 IPA International Photography Awards, honorable mention: professional analog/film landscape
2019 IPA International Photography Awards, honorable mention: professional analog/film fine art
2019 IPA International Photography Awards, honorable mention: professional analog/film fine art
2019 IPA International Photography Awards, honorable mention: professional fine art landscape
2019 ND International Photography Awards, honorable mention: professional fine art landscape
2019 ND International Photography Awards, honorable mention: professional nature landscape
2019 FAPA Fine Art Photography Awards, nominee: nature
2019 FAPA Fine Art Photography Awards, nominee: fine art
2019 FAPA Fine Art Photography Awards, nominee: landscape
2019 FAPA Fine Art Photography Awards, nominee: abstract
2019 Monvisions Awards, honorable mention: landscapes
2018 IPA International Photography Awards, honorable mention: professional street photography lifestyle
2018 IPA International Photography Awards, honorable mention: professional street photography people
2018 IPA International Photography Awards, honorable mention: professional nature
2018 ND International Photography Awards, honorable mention: professional fine art abstract
2018 Monvisions Awards, honorable mention: series, nature and wildlife
2018 International Festival: Hightlights of Nature Photography, Germany, highlight award: nature as art
2017 Monvisions Awards, honorable mention: series, nature and wildlife
2017 Monvisions Awards, honorable mention: series, abstract
2016 International Bishkek Photography Festival, Kyrgyzstan, honorable mention: black/white photography
2013 National Photo Festival “Addiction and Mankind”, Iran, 1st prize
2013 Second International Rojane Festival, Iran, honorable mention: water
2012 The Second Iranian Photo Festival, honorable mention: nature
2011 The First National Photo Environment Festival [Harra], Iran, 3rd prize: nature
2010 The First Iranian Photo Festival, honorable mention: nature
2019 Adana Rotary International Salon, Turkey, honorable mention
2007 FIAP, Turkey, silver medal: nature
2004 Khorasan Nature Festival, Iran, 3rd prize
Basim Ghomorlou, born in 1984, is an Iranian photographer who focuses on Nature and Social Documentary. His dominantly back and white photographs include digital work; however, his specialty is analog photography. Since 2000 he has traveled Iran’s nature, urban and rural areas to capture a country in transition. In 2011 he organized a first-ever photo exhibition in a remote village in Khorasan (Iran). In 2016 he moved to Germany to continue with new and ongoing projects.
Basim presented his work in solo exhibitions in the Iranian Artists’ Forum in Tehran (Iran), the Isfahan Museum of Contemporary Art in Isfahan (Iran), the University of Bonn (Germany) (among other places) and has collaborated with artists in the Cinema Galeries in Brussels (Belgium), the Médiathèque André Malraux in Strasbourg (France) and many other exhibitions. His first book is set to be published in autumn 2019.