Zahid Jiwa is a photographer and film maker currently based out of Vancouver, British Columbia.
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About ‘American Apparent’:
Captured in New York City and surrounding environs in 2015, the images that comprise Zahid Jiwa’s American Apparent speak for themselves as a series of photographs characterized by the uninhibited but at the same time fleeting glance inherent to the restless modern man, stylised by the possibility of quiet reflection amid the busy doings of modern, dynamic life.
Jiwa’s razor sharp preoccupations gesture past the behavioural mutations necessitated by American Empire and gaze into the vague and romantic transcendence that occasionally appears within the cracks of totemic routines and obligations.
Existing somewhere between the built and the unbuilt, Jiwa’s compositions and subject matter hint at an obsession with the vanishing cinematic potential of the everyday American condition, playing with symbols of historicity, time and ageing to render the estranged sensation of urban science fiction.
Meanwhile, a dignified air of calmness with underlying tensions pervades scenes of everyday eclecticism.
Inspired in equal measure by New York street photographers and pre-Enlightenment European classicist conventions, American Apparent ultimately finds compromises in its uncannily produced sense of the informal and shows how within this space of possibility, new ideas are encouraged to take form.
