Too many images representing Iranians are created by and for news Media who are inevitably influenced by either stereotyped pre-conceptions or their governments and their agendas.
AKSbazi.com is a response to a need by Iranians to re-define their own image, a sensibility which has manifested itself repeatedly in Iran’s art and cinema in the past 30 years, but is now becoming even more urgent.
AKSbazi.com is a place where Iranians themselves can make their own image from the inside as opposed to being looked at from the outside.
Bahar By Amir Jadidi
The games as we call them are just themes which we suggest ,or our players suggest, and then we all take our cameras or mobile phones and play them. It’s that simple really.
Bahar By Shaghayegh Cyrous
Through the games on the site, Anyone with any level of interest in photography can join the themed galleries that open regularly on the site.
Cheshm va Abroo BY Dana Farzanehpour
The site went live in March 2009 and since then, over 1000 users have registered uploading over 800 photographs on our galleries showing Iranians and their psyche and their environment in a completely new way.
Bahar By Zeinab Salarvand
AKSbazi.com has in a short space of time become a community for photographers of all levels of expertise to come together and express themselves through pictures. It has also become a platform for new artists to present their work in a practical sense. Our first collaboration through a special competition set up for HERMES RECORDS in Iran, led to two of our photographers’ works being published as covers for music CDs.
Carpet By Zahra Akbari
This weekend we will have an interactive exhibition on BAHAR at the British Museum in London as part of Magic Of Persia’s Norouz event.
Balcony BY Mohammad Nickdel
The players began imagining a new day, a new beginning in the coldest months of winter, but they did an incredibly good job. A selection of 30 of the photographs will be on view for this event and the visitors will be able to write their comments on post-it notes and attach below each photo: a kind of Did-o-bazdid between London and the players wherever they may be.
Iranian flag By Ramin Sadighi
Koodakaneh By Hassan Moussavi
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Love of Football BY Ali Shahbazpour
Wishing you all a very happy new day!
Norouz Pirouz
AKSbazi.com
Norouz Holidays BY Poolad Javaher Haghighi
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