Masood Kamandy

Masood Kamandy's photographs reveal everyday items transformed and given strange new life through interventions of various kinds. Focusing on the matter before the camera, Kamandy intervenes at multiple points as he creates a picture, bringing ambiguity to the process and disrupting traditional perceptions of what the objects and their photographic representation are supposed to be. Whether employing his own customized software or physically manipulating the objects in his studio, Kamandy's philosophy accepts that all photography is manufactured wherever the intervention is located.

Kamandy has presented solo exhibitions in Los Angeles and The Netherlands and has been featured in group exhibitions at the UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, The Torrance Art Museum, and Control Room, Los Angeles, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among other venues. In 2012, Kamandy participated in dOCUMENTA (13) with dual projects in Kassel, Germany and Kabul, Afghanistan. Kamandy also helped found the first photography department at Kabul University in 2002. 

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