Ali Lalfam is a photographer, visual artist and film curator working across photography, cinema, cultural programming and writing. What ties these practices together is an interest in identity, memory, desire, psychological examination and the perception of self through images.

His photography uses movement, long exposure, performance and the body. Figures blur, fragment, disappear or dissolve into their surroundings, while domestic spaces, objects and gestures carry a psychological weight of their own. Through movement, light and long exposure, Lalfam’s photography explores identity, memory and physical presence as something uncertain, fluid and open to transformation.

Much of the work comes from personal experience, reworked through staging, duration and experimentation. Intimacy and distance. Masculinity and vulnerability. Control and its loss. Belonging and displacement. Psychological fragmentation. These unsettled tensions run through Lalfam’s work, creating a space where identity is performed, questioned and rebuilt.

His curatorial work carries many of the same concerns into cinema and cultural history. He is drawn to films, filmmakers and visual traditions shaped by questions of identity, psychology, scale and aesthetics, with a particular interest in films that combine visual ambition with psychological depth.

Lalfam has worked across film programming, audience development, digital culture and communications with the BFI, the ICA and the Freud Museum London.