Featured image: Cattle and Buttes, Arian Goudar, 2025, digital photography, 38 x 26 in. / 96.52 x 66.04 cm.
Arian Goudar’s photography captures the hushed beauty of rural life with a painterly eye for light, atmosphere, and solitude.
Arian Goudar captures rural solitude and resilience through photography, blending painterly light, vast landscapes, and quiet human presence.
His works balance stillness with presence, using both digital and film photography to highlight the fleeting yet timeless moments of the American plains. In these images, Goudar reflects on land, memory, and the quiet dignity of places often overlooked.
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A Barn in the Valley, Arian Goudar, 2025, digital photography, 38 x 26 in. / 96.52 x 66.04 cm.
A Barn in the Valley portrays the vast openness of the prairie, where rolling hills lead the eye toward a lone red barn. The mirrored sky in the still water below adds a sense of depth and transience, blurring the line between earth and heavens. The barn, tiny against the endless horizon, becomes a marker of human persistence in the immensity of nature.
Mare and Foal, Arian Goudar, 2025, digital photograph, 38 x 26 in. / 96.52 x 66.04 cm.
Mare and Foal shifts the focus to the intimacy of life within these wide landscapes. The grazing mare and her watchful foal stand calmly in an open meadow, embodying both fragility and strength. The muted palette and soft light give the scene a dreamlike quality, turning a quiet encounter into a meditation on continuity, nurture, and survival.
Church on the Plains, Arian Goudar, 2025, film photography, 26 x 18 in. / 66.04 x 45.72 cm.
Church on the Plains presents a solitary chapel under a vast, storm-tinged sky. The weathered fence in the foreground anchors the viewer in the human experience of place, while the church, small but steadfast, becomes a symbol of faith and endurance in harsh conditions. The golden haze of light evokes both melancholy and reverence, suggesting that even in isolation, meaning endures.
Across these works, Goudar creates a visual hymn to solitude and resilience. Whether through architecture, animals, or the open land itself, his images draw out the poetry of rural existence, revealing both the vulnerability and strength of life set against the immensity of sky and earth.
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Train and Electric Pole, Arian Goudar, 2025, digital photography, 38 x 26 in. / 96.52 x 66.04 cm.
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