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NEWS
In the process of digitizing and uploading more photographs and artworks.
I've recently completed first year with some lovely prospects (a visual culture essay of mine is being published, my poster was used as promotional material for Emily Carr, and my gpa is rather high). As well, we've become a University. This is good news for international recognition.
I'm in the process of updating the website after a long stagnation - adding statements and texts, biographies, more galleries, more functionality and repairing bugs, etc. There's a bulk of imagery I need to back-up and edit on both of my computers.
I hope to start on some fascinating new projects in June. I'll post them here, of course.
Arseni
PHOTOGRAPHY
PROJECTS
SKETCHBOOK/PROCESS
INFORMATION
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biography
Arseni Khamzin is a self-taught artist, designer, and photographer currently studying at the Emily Carr University of Art & Design. sixohfour is Arseni's online collection of personal work.
Arseni is perpetually interested in portraiture, particularly in the context of contemporary fine-art photography. His aim is explore the interrelations of people to their own personalities, milieus, and cultural surroundings through a diverse range of photographic approaches.
When he is not staging set-up shoots, he is documenting the scenes directly around him in a candid and often disassociative manner, always keeping a close focus on people.
Recently, he has taken up an interest in alternative and unconventional means of Photography and how they can be used to recreate and reinvent well-known historical artworks and movements. He is currently pursuing projects based on this.
artistic statement & texts
"Why Can't You Just Forget Already?"
In his latest series of work, entitled "Why Can't You Just Forget Already?", Arseni's intent is to create tableaus in order to evoke an indefinite yet troubling sense of loss and personal struggle.
Exercising his abilities through subtlety of scenery and elements such as body language, colour, and content, this ongoing series attempts to create paradoxical imagery that is askew not visually, but viscerally.
Each scene is built to suggest a narrative that changes with each viewer; there is no fixed meaning or relation between the characters, settings, or secondary objects in the photographs.
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project texts:
Why Can't You Just Forget Already? april 2008
Splash! march 2008
Household Essentials november 2007
cv & contact information
curriculum vitae (pdf, 432kb)
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tel +1 604 315 4521
e-mail arseni@sixohfour.net
arseni khamzin
901-1306 haro st
vancouver, bc v6e 1g3
canada
links / affiliations
Coming soon.