Kazem Hakimi: Portraits from a Chip Shop

Arts at the Old Fire Station and Modern Art Oxford present the first major exhibition of portraits by photographer Kazem Hakimi. OCF sees this exhibition as an example of the diversity in our Oxfordshire Uncovered research in portrait. OCF’s Board of trustees will be visiting the exhibition as part of their next meeting on 10th May, and the exhibition runs until 2nd July.

Well known in the East Oxford community, Hakimi has been taking photographs for 30 years; for the past two years he has been working specifically on the OX4 project presented in these exhibitions.

Hakimi has recorded his community by posing his customers against the same white wall at the back of his fish and chip shop on the Iffley Road in East Oxford. “My customers are a cross-section of society and the photographs reveal an Oxford which is very different to the image of the city known to the outside world: one that is multi-ethnic and diverse. This series celebrates the range of characters who have made Oxford the city I love.” – Kazem Hakimi.