Gallery With A Cause • Located in the New Mexico Cancer Center • Benefitting the NMCC Foundation
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Amir Rahimi is a photographer based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Trained as a physicist, he approaches image-making with measured attention to light, tone, and structure, spending time with a place before committing to a frame.
Working primarily in black and white, he moves across landscape, documentary, and street photography with a fine-art sensibility. His landscape work traces the Southwest - from the Bisti Badlands and Shiprock to White Sands and the Sandia Mountains - while his documentary and street practice is grounded in patience and trust. His photographs are printed on archival fine-art paper.
My training in physics taught me to observe closely - to ask what is happening, what is doing the work, and what truly belongs in the frame. I bring that discipline to photography, returning to a place until it reveals its underlying order.
I work in black and white to pare the world down to essentials: light, shadow, and the quiet mathematics of tone. Whether I am alone in the backcountry at dawn or standing at a street corner at midday, I look for the same thing - relationships that hold, and moments when form and feeling align.
The photographs in this exhibition are intentionally quiet. They come from early mornings, long drives, and long stretches of waiting - until a place stops performing as scenery and becomes something encountered. That is the threshold I continue to seek.
I came to know about NMCC through my wife Fariba, a breast cancer survivor and long-time patient here. I dedicate this exhibition to her and to everyone walking this difficult path.