In large-format images, he recreates the experiences of people who left their home countries to start a new life in Germany, or who have been born in Germany as the children of migrant parents, and who have long been a part of German society. The opulent scenes present moments and episodes of their ‘becoming German,’ showing the adversities, personal accomplishments, and the milestones of a lengthy process. And nobody really knows when that process is complete. Moradi’s work is not so much documental but conceptual. His pictures appear like film-stills, plucked from the flow of time. What exactly happened is sometimes explained in text written by the protagonists of the stories, and sometimes the interpretation is entirely up to the observer.
