Archive for category: Photography

Date: 5 February 2017

Actor Reza Kianian was appointed the social responsibility ambassador of Debenhams, the UK-based department store chain, during the opening ceremony of his photo exhibit ‘Infatuated by Infinite Blue’ at Tehran’s Art Center on Friday.

“Social responsibility means we do not wait for the government and the public sector to help us. We do our work ourselves, that is, to learn to stand on our own two feet. Look at the number of galleries and theaters established recently, this mean we can do things ourselves,” Kianian said at the ceremony.

“One of the companies that stepped in to carry on social activities is Debenhams, which has begun to support Iranian costume designers and help introduce them to the world. The company has also begun to reproduce domestically-produced Iranian appliances in new designs,” he added.

“The company also offered to support my exhibit, but I proposed that they buy artworks instead; this means social responsibility,” he remarked, adding that Debenhams has officially joined the supporters of Iran’s visual art.

In his brief words Art Center Founder Vahid Malek also called it a good movement for famous companies and brands to support art. “But when a company buys artworks to support an exhibition it helps promote art and this is a new movement,” he said.
The actor’s collection titled “Infinite Blue” is composed of 24 photos, 12 of which feature photos of the galaxy and the other 12 objects left on the Anzali Marsh.

The ceremony was attended by a large number of officials, fans and art lovers including Health Minister Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi, photographer Fakhreddin Fakhreddini and painter Gholamhossein Nami.

Kianian is among the supporters of the campaign launched by a number of environmental activists to save and restore Lake Urmia from environmental ruin.

He dedicated his present photo exhibition to the veteran photographer Nasrollah Kasraian

The exhibit will be running until February 13 at the gallery located at North Salimi St., Andarzgu Blvd. in the Farmanieh neighborhood.

Photo: Reza Kianian in front of one of his photos on display at his photography exhibition titled: “Infatuated by Infinite Blue”

Source: Tehran Times

Date: 21 January 2017

Art Basel, the giant Swiss art fair, plans to showcase a final photography series from world-renowned Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami in an exhibition during its Hong Kong edition in spring.

Kiarostami, who achieved global recognition for Iranian cinema after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, passed away last year in July.

The exhibition will be held from 23 to 25 March 2017.

Photo: A photo by Abbas Kiarostami

Source: Tehran Times

Date: 2 January 2017

The Sanati Museum of Contemporary Art in Kerman is planning to showcase world-renowned Iranian art icon Abbas Kiarostami’s photo series “A Window to the Life”.

A weeklong exhibition, which will open on January 5, will put 40 photos from the collection on display, the museum announced on Sunday.

Windows are the central theme of the series, part of which was put on display in an exhibit at Tehran’s Boom Gallery in memory of the auteur, poet and photographer, who passed away in July 2016 at the age of 76.

“I first began with these windows, some of them were situated in a beautiful wall, and my camera gradually began to distance from the windows and moved toward the walls and ‘The Wall’ series appeared. The walls belong to the entire world but each one belongs to a specific place,” Kiarostami had said about his series “A Window to the Life.”

Kiarostami also created the photo series “Snow White”, “Roads”, “Moonlight”, “Doors without Keys” and “Doors and Memories.”

Once Kiarostami had said, “Why are we always trying to define cinema separately from photography and music. They are connected, they mingle and they are interwoven. Why do we like to have something very specific and defined? If that were the case, then the person who likes cinema shouldn’t go to the gallery or vice versa. We have to have them all together.”

He had asked his fans to look at his photos if they want to learn about his professional life. “Find me in my photos,” he had once said, “My photos are the source of inspiration for all my films.”

Source: Tehran Times

Date: 31 December 2016

Iranian photographer Amir Shokrgozar won one of the three special prizes at the 77th International Photographic Salon of Japan last week.

He received the prize for his single untitled photo, which depicts a boy with his herd in a heavy snow.

Two other special prizes were presented to Serbian photographer Bojan Petrovic for “MP” and Israeli photographer Leonid Goldin.

The contest offered 124 honorable mentions to photographers from over 70 countries including 12 photographers from Iran.

“Where” by Vahid Babai, “Stop War Crimes” by Seyyed Ali Miremadi, “Rain” by Seyyed Mohammad-Sadeq Hosseini, “Mirror” by Parisa Fahami and “In Class” by Mohammad Golchin Kuhi received honorable mentions.

“Bustle” by Mohammad Sobati-Azar, “Hidden Way” by Mehdi Nazari, “No Title” by Mehdi Heidarinejad, “Cold” by Mehdi Aqiqi, “My Husband” by Ghadir Vaqari, “Mourning for Father” by Amir-Hossein Kamali and “The Old Village” by Amin Dehqan also won honorable mentions.

A selection of the submissions to the contest will be showcased in exhibitions in Tokyo, Nagoya, Fukuoka and other major cities in Japan during March 2017.
The contest has been organized by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper and the All Japan Photographic Federation.

Source: Tehran Times

Date: 13 December 2016

The fifth exhibition of 10 days with Iranian Photographers launched by the efforts of Iranian Photographers Association and participation of various photography societies and institutions opened on December 9 in the Iranian Artists Forum with the slogan: “Today’s Photography, New Opportunities.

The Society of Iran Cinema, the Photography Association of the Cultural Inheritance, the Photographers’ Society of the Revolution and Sacred defense, the Photographers’ Society of the house of theater, the Society of Negah Photographers and the Iranian House of Photographers will each present their works in this event.

In addition, there will be workshops, lectures and extensive photography
exhibitions held in the Iranian Artists Forum and other places during the fifth edition of 10 Days with Iranian Photographers.

The exhibition titled “Contemporary Man” and two other exhibitions of selected works of the previous third and fourth editions opened on 12 December in the 3 galleries of Arasbaran Farhangsara running until 20 December 2016.

Another exhibition will open on December 13 in Imam Ali Museum displaying works by Simon Ayvazian, Ali Qlamsiah, Masoud Masoumi and Manouchehr Yeganehdoust which will run until 23 December 2016.

Source: Farairan