VISUAL STORY TELLING. RISHAD MISTRI
This post introduces you to my cousin Rishad Mistri : writer, musician, singer and amazing photographer.
Rishad was born in Beirut and lived in Europe and Asia before moving to the US at the age of 12. He studied literature and writing at The New School for Social Research.
His work has been published in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Interview, Architectural Digest (Italy), L'Officiel, Vibe, Spin and the American Photo.
People believe that good gear will yield better photographs and that being at the right place at the right time will help create photographs that will stir the soul. I think only part of this is true, the rest depends on your creativity. The camera matters, but it doesn't dictate the aesthetic.
Rishad presented his work at The Robert Miller Gallery in New york last year in a photography series titled The RASA 1.0.
Mistri’s process begins with implementing an iPhone camera to capture found objects and common occurrences. Collaborating with Bridge Photographic Studio, the iPhone images are manipulated in postproduction to create gelatin silver, archival pigment, and Mouillé prints. Mistri utilizes PDM™, a proprietary process, which enables minute manipulation of individual pixels. Furthermore, through the Deep Dye / Mouillé Process, color and tone relationships are exhaustively translated through a unique color form model, taking ten-fold more time and material to craft than modern pigment prints.
Decisively focusing his photography on subject matter encountered in daily life, Mistri attempts to evoke rasa, a concept in Indian aesthetic theory that suggests there is an essential element in any visual, literary, or performing art work that can only be suggested, not described. Mistri explains, “Rasa is the non-material essence. It is the dialogue created between an effective presentation of art in any form and the participating spectator.”
His gelatin silver print Smoke 1, NYC (2013) forms a double helix, the mathematical symbol for infinity. It implies our ability to comprehend the transition from line to plane, to cylinder, to circle, to sphere, as well as the transformation from the physical to the ethereal. Sophia, Skype (2013), an iPhone-captured Skype call, invites the viewer to consider an emotion suspended in cyberspace and the effect the Internet has on redefining our collective conception of closeness. We need not inhabit the same place or time of day to be together in the present moment.
*Press release courtesy of Robert Miller Gallery
This post introduces you to my cousin Rishad Mistri : writer, musician, singer and amazing photographer.
Rishad was born in Beirut and lived in Europe and Asia before moving to the US at the age of 12. He studied literature and writing at The New School for Social Research.
His work has been published in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Interview, Architectural Digest (Italy), L'Officiel, Vibe, Spin and the American Photo.
People believe that good gear will yield better photographs and that being at the right place at the right time will help create photographs that will stir the soul. I think only part of this is true, the rest depends on your creativity. The camera matters, but it doesn't dictate the aesthetic.
Rishad presented his work at The Robert Miller Gallery in New york last year in a photography series titled The RASA 1.0.
Decisively focusing his photography on subject matter encountered in daily life, Mistri attempts to evoke rasa, a concept in Indian aesthetic theory that suggests there is an essential element in any visual, literary, or performing art work that can only be suggested, not described. Mistri explains, “Rasa is the non-material essence. It is the dialogue created between an effective presentation of art in any form and the participating spectator.”
His gelatin silver print Smoke 1, NYC (2013) forms a double helix, the mathematical symbol for infinity. It implies our ability to comprehend the transition from line to plane, to cylinder, to circle, to sphere, as well as the transformation from the physical to the ethereal. Sophia, Skype (2013), an iPhone-captured Skype call, invites the viewer to consider an emotion suspended in cyberspace and the effect the Internet has on redefining our collective conception of closeness. We need not inhabit the same place or time of day to be together in the present moment.
*Press release courtesy of Robert Miller Gallery
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