Salman Khalid
Salman Khalid is a conceptual photographer interested in dissecting our assumed ways of seeing. Weaving scanner technology, the camera, and found media and images, with text, Salman hopes to understand where our world comes from and how systems, histories, and powers incentivize and shape our perceptions. By doing so, he hopes we may wrestle control of ourselves to instead continually challenge and thereby sculpt our own ways of seeing and being within the world.
With a BFA in photography, Salman understands the image not merely by its technical cohesion or lack thereof, but as a duality of symbols and aesthetics that at once contextualize and create meaning alongside affect. With a minor in philosophy, Salman aims to not merely transcribe past into future but instead interrogate image making a set of ritual and beliefs marked by what we photograph, just as well as what we don’t.