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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
