Ehsan Hazaveh, who is based in New Zealand, aims to capture a refugee’s future rather than looking at the past
, he does not click and walk away – in some cases, the process can take 10 months, and the subject of the photograph has nearly as much input into the final images and accompanying text as he does.
“We have doctors, a Pulitzer award winner, cleaners, caregivers, teachers – a whole range of people,” Hazaveh says. “When you put all these people together, [viewers] start to think about the wide range of abilities and capacities – all of them bring something valuable.”‘I am holding police paper works in my hands. My son just came out from a coma. A few months ago, a gang member hit my son in the head multiple times using a baseball bat.
Hazaveh arrived in New Zealand from Tehran to study for his PhD at the media studies department at Victoria University of Wellington, in 2018. Before that, he had documented marginalised communities in rural Iran, winning multiple awards for his work.‘I was a fashion model and studied fashion design in Ethiopia. Now I work as a nail technician at a beauty salon in Wellington. Before that, I worked in Cambridge city where my daughter used to go to school.
In the four years Hazaveh has been in New Zealand, he has taken numerous photographs of people who have been refugees at some point in their lives, and are now carving out a place in their new country. This is the part of their stories Hazaveh is determined to capture.
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