Aria Shahrokhshahi – Wet Ground Cinema reminding us that his photography

reminding us that his photography was always a social practice first and foremost

Cover by Mohamed Bourouissa

Texts by Léa Besanceney and Salomé Burstein

The Four Pillars grew out of a relationship with a faith-based self-help group in Newtown

and eventually are absorbed by the landscape that surrounds them

Aria Shahrokhshahi – Wet Ground Cinema reminding us that his photographyShahrokhshahi explores the slippery terrain of Ukrainian identity through an engaged, embedded and poetic approach to social documentary made on the frontlines of Russias full scale invasion. Wet Ground is a long term body of work by British Iranian artist Aria Shahrokhshahi, developed through repeated stays living and volunteering in Ukraine since 2019. Made from inside the war rather than in response to it, Shahrokhshahis activist approach rejects