Omar is a London-based visual artist and photographer. He works mainly with film and digital photography, focusing on finding beauty in both the light and darker sides of life. His style is cinematic but honest, capturing real moments with a sense of emotion and simplicity. Through his images, Omar explores the way everyday scenes can feel timeless, layered, and full of meaning.
Project Statement
Street Layers is an ongoing analogue photography series that explores the rhythm and complexity of urban life through the technique of in-camera multiple exposure. Shot entirely on black-and-white film, the project captures the layered visual essence of city streets—architecture, movement, light, and time collapsing into a single frame.
Rather than documenting a singular moment, Street Layers creates a dialogue between different parts of the same environment. I approach each composition as a visual rhythm: the city becomes a kind of score, with buildings, traffic, and pedestrians forming patterns of tone and tempo. These photographs aren’t staged or manipulated digitally; they are constructed intuitively in the camera, letting intuition guide where one exposure should meet the next.
The project began as a personal response to life in London—particularly how overwhelming, beautiful, and fragmented the city can feel all at once. As the work evolved, I noticed how the images echoed the internal experience of urban living: layered, nonlinear, full of contradiction but also harmony.
Street Layers is not just about the physical city; it’s about how memory and emotion reshape the spaces we move through every day. The overlapping exposures mimic the way we mentally carry one street into another, one season into the next. What appears chaotic at first often reveals a surprising order, a calm rhythm beneath the noise.
This series invites viewers to slow down and consider the invisible connections between places. In doing so, it hopes to shift how we see the cities we live in—not as disjointed structures, but as continuous, living experiences.
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