ORKHAN ABBASOV Photographer & DoP

Grandma, Azerbaijan 2019

Summer. Drifting by Orkhan Abbasov. Participant of BursaPhotoFest 2021, Bursa, Turkey. This project explores three recreational locations by the Caspian Sea in a time of the pandemic. COVID-19 made us more inward looking. We are unable to cross international borders with the same ease as before. At the same time our dependence on social media has grown. Local bloggers and influencers began traveling more frequently inside the country. They produced content, which had a snowball effect on local travel and changed our habitual tourist destinations. When traveling in Azerbaijan each time I discover something new. Sometimes it’s a new place, sometimes it’s a new experience. Often I arrive too late when the place had already lost its functionality, though the vestiges of it’s past existence remain in present time. Like in a film set, it remains deserted. This show is over and the next one has moved elsewhere.

Depth, Light and Shadow, 2014

Bazar, Baku, 2010

Katarinahuset, 2014

Gamlastan, 2014

Dark Stranger, Bright Alley

Morning Train

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Porto_02

Morphosis

Some frames from a short film experience with Filipa Louceiro #CINEMATIC #STILLS #FRAMES #HAWKANAMORPHICS #ANAMORPHIC #RED #MONSTRO #8K #REDRAW #LISBON #SINTRA #PORTUGAL #OCEAN #FLOREST #WOMAN #LIGHT #MOVEMENT

A Dream

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Vera Lisbon, 2020

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