The ORDINAЯY MOMENT is a group photography exhibition bringing together the works of independent Iranian photographers whose relationship with photography extends beyond profession, market, or institutional recognition. Although many of these artists possess years of experience and substantial bodies of work, photography for them has remained less a stable occupation than a space of encounter; […]
Mapping the Local 2025/2026–2 Memory, Space, and Everyday Testimony The Spring Semester 2025/2026–2 of Mapping the Local was led by filmmaker, artist, and researcher Mansour Forouzesh. His practice-based approach combines documentary filmmaking, personal testimony, realism, and the relationship between image, memory, and lived experience. Drawing from both cinematic and artistic methodologies, the semester encouraged students […]
Documentary workshop: Transforming the Ordinary into Cinematic Vision by Mansour Forouzesh Transforming the Ordinary into Cinematic Vision is a hands-on documentary workshop led by Mansour Forouzesh, one of the artists of the Border Situations exhibition and realized as part of the exhibition program. [More info: https://fb.me/e/4oRnrYdQ0 ] It introduces participants to the fundamentals of storytelling […]
Mansour ForouzeshPhD candidate at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Doctoral School Ficomentary: Reconstructing Reality Through Narrative Cinema (2025)Published in Mapping the (In)Visible: Ideas, Experiments and Solutions in Visual Art Research (Editura Universității de Vest din Timișoara, 2025; ISBN 978-630-327-251-1; ISSN 3120-0370), West University of Timișoara. This essay introduces “Ficomentary” as a hybrid narrative framework […]
THE ORDINAЯY MOMENT A report on the exhibition “The ORDINAЯY MOMENT” at the Budapest Photo Festival 2025 Introduction The ORDINAЯY MOMENT is a group exhibition presenting works by Iranian photographers at the Budapest Photo Festival 2025. Curated by Mansour Forouzesh, the exhibition centers on storytelling as a fundamental mode through which photographers engage with and […]
“Ordinaяy Moment”: Iranian Photographers Capture Everyday Life at FUGA as Part of Budapest Photo Festival 2025 Budapest, Hungary – April 10, 2025 — The photo exhibition Ordinaяy Moment opened its doors at FUGA: Budapest Center of Architecture, offering visitors a rare and compelling look into the nuances of everyday life in Iran through the eyes […]
Mansour ForouzeshMagyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem | Hungarian University of Fine Arts [In]Visible Meaning: Exploring Narratives within the Artistic Framework (2024)Published in SIMPOZION: Discursuri teoretice și practici artistice în domeniul artelor vizuale / Theoretical Discourses and Artistic Practices in the Field of Visual Arts (Editura Universității de Vest din Timișoara, 2024; ISBN 978-630-327-138-5), proceedings of the 6th […]
By Mona Monsefi Mansour Forouzesh, in his exhibition, [IN]visible Meaning, depicts two collections, Fear and Comfort Zone, both ultimately presenting his philosophical approach to the definition of meaning. Fear expresses his experience of the strain on people through social media during the Covid-19 pandemic and Comfort Zone, an ongoing black-and-white project started in 2017, illustrating […]
By Paula Grohn Mansour Forouzesh’s photo exhibition “[In]Visible meaning” consists of two series of photos called “Fear” and “Comfort Zone”. The Fear series is a collection of colour photos, taken during the first months of COVID-19 spreading, each photo being presented together with a news article headline related to Coronavirus pandemic. The series is reintroducing […]
Interview with Mansour Forouzesh about A Few Knots Away by Vahid Hosseini-Nami Interview with Mansour Forouzesh about A Few Knots AwaySource: Iranian Short Film News Agency April 19, 2019 Vahid Hosseini-Nami:Mansour Forouzesh is a talented and energetic filmmaker, best known for his film Hose (Shilang) and its multiple appearances at international festivals, as well as […]