Mehdi Khajeh

All is distant and long ago

by Mehdi Khajeh (Germany)

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My camera is a tool not just for documentation, but for navigating the tension between chance and repetition, movement and stillness.

I create images where the foreground—close and fleeting—is blurred by motion, while distant structures remain sharp. Each frame is a visual metaphor for time itself. The present rushes past; the past remains, just barely in focus.

My background is in software engineering, but photography is where I explore emotion, structure, and the poetics of observation. I approach image-making with both method and intuition, drawn to themes of memory, movement, and overlooked spaces.

In my this ongoing project, I photograph the passing landscape—blurred foregrounds and sharp, distant elements that reflect the layering of time and memory through the windows of trains. The work is a meditation on chance, repetition, and the delicate act of seeing while in motion.