James Nizam: Fata Morgana

James Hussein Nizam (b. 1977) is a Vancouver-based Canadian artist of Lebanese and British descent. His practice approaches photography as an expanded medium, using conceptual and interdisciplinary strategies that move beyond traditional forms of photographic representation. Central to his work is the development of technically inventive, process-driven methods that challenge conventional image-making. His exhibition "Fata Morgana" at Marshall Gallery in Los Angeles, his first presentation with the gallery, takes its name from a mirage in which light passing through a thermal inversion makes objects appear to hover above the horizon, and brings together framed photographic prints with process objects such as ground glass, altered cameras, negatives and sketches.