Old photo albums are like family tombs. They put the images of the past together, and their alliance allows us to give them all a general title: Old Photos. Never mind the generality of the title; it’s because every photo is old and related to the past. What differentiates old photos, or in better expression, photos, is their summoning power to the present time. In said photos, the past isn’t directly translated into the present, but it appears in various ways in present time.
Behnam Kamrani’s artistic approach to picture of the family albums is a way of summoning the past to the present: the small photos have been enlarged into dimensions of a canvas. Kamrani has added colored lines on his selected canvases, and despite the validity of the previous frame has confirmed his artistic choice yet again. At last, he has intervened in the photos and has added traces of his previous paintings to them. These lines don’t have an illustrative trace and work against such an approach. They give "color" to the summoning of the past.

Behnam Kamrani