Mehran Mohajer (b. 1964, Tehran, Iran) is an artist, teacher, writer, and translator living and working in Tehran. He holds a BA in Photography (1990) and an MA in General Linguistics (1994) from the University of Tehran. A faculty member at his alma mater, he has been teaching in various academic institutions for the past three decades. He has authored several books on literary criticism and photography. His articles on photography have appeared, among other places, in "Herfeh:Honarmand" magazine. Mehran Mohajer is captivated by the relationship between the camera and the act of seeing. The locus of our visual attention is borne by a field interposed by obstructions, byroads, flank views, blurs. Mohajer's camera makes sure that his viewer is engages with that which is surpassed in the act of seeing. What intrudes in his frames can be a pair of fingers ("Between and Non-Between", 2017), a fist, a sheet of glass ("The Present Past", 2017), letters of the alphabet, or the misty blur from a slow exposure ("Air of the Land", 2019). Whatever the obstructions, the photographer brings an embodied presence to the frames of his photograph. Some of his frames point to "no-thing" ("Scaffolding", 2021). He pays attention to the dynamics of the language of the camera and challenges its boundaries. "The Syntax of Effacement"(+2 Gallery, 2024) continues with his interest in the languistics of the photographic image – what it hides in the process of revealing.