Untitled Series

Images from a series of meaningful encounters with strangers and place, in Albuquerque NM.

For Khan, photography is a way of being tactile with the world. He is interested in the experiences that the pursuit of taking pictures opens up, and particularly portraits Khan sees as a journey point in a process of a relationship. Khan finds beauty in the overlooked, and uses the medium of photography as a means to form connections with people and places. Khan’s practice is empathetic, documentary in its base, and is a continual search for notions of self within an other.

In this series, Situationist ideas around spectacle and the reification of the everyday inform wanderings, encounters, and a connection to the feeling of presence. By placing himself alone in a new and unfamiliar environment, Khan was seeking a heightened and deliberate way of looking and engaging with his surroundings as he travelled through the city on foot, making serendipitous connections with people and landscape.

Drawn to New Mexico by a fascination of the desert, and how western human intervention is interacting with that terrain, upon arrival Khan quickly found an interest in the city of Albuquerque. Focussing his time in this location and around its edges over a two week period, the images in this series are the starting points of a relationship to place.

This is an ongoing project. I plan to revisit Albuquerque, and building on connections made during the initial trip, create a series of more in-depth portraits and landscape images in the neighbourhoods of Huning Highlands, South Broadway, Barelas, and Five Points.