Category Archives: Iran

Zeinab Salarvand

By yaohong | Published: May 13, 2010
TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Interior, Exterior“) © Zeinab Salarvand, 2007 Dide Magazine is back with issue 2 and this time round Iranian photographer, Zeinab Salarvand, is featured with a series that leaves me rather unsettled. There is a saying that the very root of photography is surveying, observing life on behalf God’s eyes; a look [...]
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Mehrdad Naraghi

By yaohong | Published: June 5, 2009
Iranian Mehrdad Naraghi turns Tehran into a faceless city. TOP, from (“Cars”), MIDDLE TO BOTTOM, from (“Fog and Darkness”) © Mehrdad Naraghi, 2004-2005 View the full series on Naraghi’s website. There’s an interesting interview with him over at Camera Obscura.
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Shadi Ghadirian

By yaohong | Published: January 16, 2009
Shadi Ghadirian looks at the state of Iranian women, raising questions of how women are treated in society but with a healthy dose of dark humor. TOP, from (“Qajar“), MIDDLE, from (“Like Every Day“), BOTTOM, from (“Nil“) © Shadi Ghadirian, 1999-2007 In the first series, Qajar, she placed her female friends and modern objects within [...]
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Mohammadreza Mirzaei

By yaohong | Published: July 28, 2008
A few weeks ago, I had a short email exchange with a reader on whether the blog should feature work from some countries. Iran, and other Middle Asian states were embroiled as I considered them to be Middle Eastern countries. I ruminated over it for several days and it did not feel right – how [...]
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