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Where science, philosophy, and art converge through light.
Retiqmera operates at the luminous intersection of scientific inquiry, philosophical discourse, and artistic praxis. Founded as an interdisciplinary photographic laboratory, the institution is dedicated to exploring the profound convergence of physical phenomena and aesthetic intelligence.
Our methodological framework harmonizes the precision of optics and physics with the critical depths of semiotics, visual theory, and fine art. This synthesis finds its ultimate expression in Revelatory Aesthetic Photography™ — a discipline that rejects the arbitrary imposition of external concepts upon a subject. Instead, Retiqmera seeks to discern and illuminate the latent structural beauty inherently residing within the phenomenon itself, orchestrating the precise conditions necessary for its absolute emergence.
Mahshid Shoorangiz
Art · Design · Digital Imaging · Print Production · Aesthetic Direction
As a professional painter, graphic designer, and visual artist, Mahshid defines the artistic and synthetic direction of the photographic process. Drawing upon decades of practice across fine art, visual composition, and design, she approaches the image as an integrated field in which form, color, space, material, atmosphere, and meaning converge. Her artistic work, presented in exhibitions and developed across disciplines ranging from naturalistic painting and industrial design to abstract-surrealist imagery, reflects a sustained inquiry into the capacity of visual form to translate philosophical ideas into perceptible and affective experience.
While her naturalistic work has cultivated a precise sensitivity to anatomy, proportion, light, materiality, and the subtleties of visible appearance, her abstract and surrealist painting explores how complex philosophical and mythic concepts can be transformed into visual structures, symbolic relations, and semantic associations.
Within Revelatory Aesthetic Photography™, Mahshid’s work particularly informs the synthesis of light, chromaticity, gesture, material, spatial relations, semiotic elements, and atmosphere shaping the aesthetic and semantic integrity of the image. Her approach seeks an equilibrium between compositional order and expressive tension, allowing complexity to emerge from coherent underlying principles.
Beyond image capture, her expertise in digital imagery, print technology, color management, and material processes extends this synthesis into the final realization of the work. From conceptual formation to the physical qualities of the photographic print, she preserves the continuity between artistic intention, perceptual experience, and material presence. Photography thereby becomes a process of visual synthesis through which the latent aesthetic potential of the subject unfolds into coherent artistic manifestation.
Dr. Fariborz Derakhshan
Photonics · Philosophy · Cognitive Science · Semiotics · Photography
Professional member of:
- Royal Photographic Society
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
Rooted in a distinguished scientific lineage and shaped by more than 4 decades behind the lens, Fari brings the precision of theoretical physics into dialogue with the interpretive depth of hermeneutic philosophy. His background in mathematical subnuclear physics, specializing in Supersymmetry, informs his exploration of symmetry as a fundamental principle underlying both physical laws and aesthetic order. As a multidisciplinary research scientist and inventor, his work spans computer science, artificial intelligence, and quantum physics. Central to his photographic practice is a rigorous command of the physics of light — from geometrical optics and electromagnetic wave theory to quantum electrodynamics, encompassing the quantum behavior of photons and their interactions with matter.
Alongside his professional research, Fari has delivered numerous university-level lectures across a remarkably broad spectrum of cultural and structural inquiry. These range from Riemannian hyperspace geometry and the perspectival transformations of Cubism to the Wagnerian fourth wall, Brechtian epic theatre, the socio-political origins of tragedy, and the emergence of complexity from self-referential fractal structures.
Across these domains, Fari investigates how realities beyond immediate perception acquire intelligible form through representation. His research in quantum neuromorphic artificial intelligence extends this inquiry to neural dynamics and the cognitive transformation of physical stimuli into experience. Echoing a cybernetic view of reality as approached through hypothetical approximations and partial observations, he conceives perception as a dynamic, iterative process in which shifting perspectives and oscillating scales disclose complementary facets of the subject, gradually assembling them into an evolving image of reality. By selectively emphasizing certain perceived features while suppressing others, this process both reveals and sublimates the subject.
Within this framework, his art of photography unfolds along a continuum from light through perception and cognition to semiotics, semantics, and meaning, entangling these dimensions within a unified field of artistic creation. Revelatory Aesthetic Photography™ translates this continuum into a dialectical, asymmetrical, and bidirectional methodology in which the deliberate orchestration of light and visual composition elicits the immanent beauty of the subject, generatively transfiguring it.
The studio and its partners pursue uncompromising quality across every stage of the photographic process — from the discovery of the subject’s aesthetic essence to its final realization as a fine-art photographic work in print.