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Photos: Vafa Animal Shelter in Iran

admin — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:57:39 +0000

Founded in 2004, the Vafa Animal Shelter is the first animal shelter in Iran, dedicated to providing help and shelter to injured and homeless animals in Iran. The Vafa shelter is a non-government charity organization relying solely on private donations and volunteers.

Vafa Animal Shelter is located in the town of Hashtgerd, about an hour and a half west of Tehran on the road to Ghazvin. At VAFA, a 4,000 sq. meter facility, dogs are treated to regular meals, grooming, water, and humane treatment. Every dog is surgically altered to cut down on overpopulation. Trustworthy and deserving families that promise to give dogs good homes are allowed to adopt.

Click here to view the embedded video.

At present, the shelter is under the supervision of Mr. Ali Saani and is run by a group of devoted volunteers and caring veterinarians who donate much of their services. The shelter is currently (in 2010) home to over 400 dogs.

The five teams of the Center for Animal Lovers:

Scientific team: studying and researching the latest developments about animals and the environment; providing educational books, articles, and translations.
Animal Care team: looking after sick or homeless animals as well as conducting follow up visits to adopted pets to ensure their care and well being.
Artistic team: producing newsletters and advertisements, written articles, and artwork.
Public relations: maintaining good relations with donors and other organizations; recruiting new donors.
Financial team: raising money and funds; maintaining proper accounting of funds.

Budda - 5 month old Smart, handsome, and eager to please - is now home-mate of a Vafa’s supporter in US

Vafa Animal Shelter page on facebook

To send a donation to Shelter cal.ir contact info@cal.ir

The Green Team: Iranian Opposition’s Heavy Hitters

admin — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:25:15 +0000

Graphics and text by Kristin Deasy RFE/RL

An RFE/RL primer, in the form of mock trading cards, on some key figures within the Green Movement that emerged after Iran’s disputed 2009 election.

Mir-Hossein-Musavi, Bahareh Hedayat, Mehdi-Saharkhiz, Mohammad Shajarian, Mohsen Mirdamadi, Neda Agha-Soltan, Mohammad-Nourizad, Mourning-Mothers, Zahrah Rahnavard, Majid Tavakoli, Mehdi-Karrub

Introduction to AKSbazi.com

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:18:35 +0000

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

You can follow the day’s events live, via Twitter by following us on:

Twitter.com/AKSbazi

Or see the photos and add your own comments on our page on facebook here:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php

Love of Football BY Ali Shahbazpour

Wishing you all a very happy new day!

Norouz Pirouz
AKSbazi.com

Norouz Holidays BY Poolad Javaher Haghighi

Fataneh Dadkhah’s photographs at Candlestar

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:23:10 +0000

Fataneh Dadkhah is a pioneer of stage photography as an artistic discipline in Iran.

Dadkhah’s beautiful Balouchi Bride series can be commissioned exclusively from Candlestar as limited edition prints.

Fataneh Dadkhah has documented the rebirth of Iranian theater since the 1979 revolution, and in 1983 she published, Theatre Photography, in association with the Dramatic Arts Center in Iran.

Since 2001 Dadkhah has traveled extensively inside and outside of Iran taking snapshots of her experiences, and has exhibited nationally and internationally

Balouch Bride series by Fataneh Dadkhah

Balouch Bride series by Fatane Dadkhah-

http://www.candlestar.co.uk/

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Visit Fataneh Dadkhah web site

Still Traveling 6 by Fataneh Dadkhah

http://www.fatanehdadkhah.com

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Visit more artists at Candlestar

Horses Series by Mohammad Rahimi

Poet and Cage Bronze by Parviz Tanavoli

Cock + red chair by Kourosh Salehi

Feast o Angels Series by Delbar Shahbaz

By Tahereh Samadi Tari

http://www.candlestar.co.uk/

Exhibition: Tehran-New York

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:57:12 +0000

March 05 – Apr 01, 2010
Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller (LTMH) Gallery

TEHRAN – NEW YORK will explore synergies and differences among the works of 40 well-known and emerging contemporary Iranian artists living in Iran and the U.S.

The exhibition does not aim to define Iranian art, but rather to examine the unique visions that exist among Iranian artists, while encouraging a much-needed place for dialogue. However great the distance, there are always loose ties that unite these artists across the globe.

By: MAHMOUD BAKHSHI MOAKHAR - Farshfouroushi Carpet Bazaar

While many of the artists tackle the same political and social issues, the result is hugely varied due to the different perspectives of the geographically dispersed group.

ROYA FARASSAT - American Dream 2007

The artists in TEHRAN – NEW YORK include:

Samira Abbassy, Negar Ahkami, Shiva Ahmadi, Amir-Hossein Akhavan, Afruz Amighi, Shoja Azari, Maryam Bayat, Majeed Beenteha, Bahar Behbahani, Ali Chitsaz, Reza Derakshani, Hossein Edalatkhah, Aylene Fallah, Mehdi Farhadian, Roya Farassat, Siamak Filizadeh, Shadi Ghadirian, Darioush Gharahzad, Ramin Haerizadeh, Khosrow Hassanzadeh, Bahman Jalali, Rana Javadi, Y.Z. Kami, Shahram Karimi, Farideh Lashai, Pooneh Maghazehe, Niki Manray, Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar, Nazar Moosavinia, Farhad Moshiri, Shirin Neshat, Nicky Nodjoumi, Farah Ossouli, Soody Sharifi, Arman Stepanian, Taravat Talepasand, Sadegh Tirafkan, Hamila Vakili, and Darius Yektai.

MAJEED BEENTEHA - Untitled, Nationa Riddle Series 2009

DARIOUSH GHARAHZAD - Untitled 2009

HOSSEIN EDALATKHAH - Brothel Keepers 2008

NICKY NODJOUMI - Religious Man 2007

NIKI MANRAY - Twisted Emancipation 2009

SIAMAK FILIZADEH - Bread Cheese Series 2002

SHIRIN NESHAT - Offered Eyes 1993

A significant portion of the work has never been shown in the U.S. A catalog will accompany the exhibition.

http://www.ltmhgallery.com/

The Golha Project: Digital Archiving of Flowers of Persian Poetry and Song

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:54:33 +0000

Golha Radio Program, broadcast from 1956 through 1979, covered the entire history of classical as well as contemporary Persian poetry, giving marvelous expression to the whole gamut of traditional Persian music and poetry.

Digital archiving of all the Golha radio programs is being conducted for access by academic researchers of Persian music and literature and the public at large.

The Golha Project has been supported by the British Library Endangered Archives Program, the Music Department of the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London (SOAS), The British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS), the Iran Heritage Foundation (IHF) and the Parsa Foundation.

Golha Project Management by
Jane Lewisohn: jane@golha.co.uk
Aydin Azizzadeh: aydin@golha.co.uk

Following presentation is from Jadid OnLine on Golha Project - Persian with English subtitle

Click here to view the embedded video.

The music and literary repertoire of the programs known generally as Golha, ‘Flowers [of Persian Poetry and Song]‘ was a series of weekly radio programs. The foremost and best musicians, vocalists, literary critics, poets and announcers performed on the programs, thus providing a unique – and still the best and most poetically diverse-recorded collection of the classical corpus of Persian music and poetry made in the 20th century.

Rahi Mo"ayyeri and Davud Pirnia at Maydan-i Arg Radio Studio Tehran

This project proposes to construct a digital archive of the series for access by academic researchers of Persian music and literature and the public at large. The first phase of the project, which was to compile and digitize a complete archive of all the Golha radio programs, was completed in 2008 by Jane Lewisohn under the auspices and support of the Endangered Archives Program of the British Library where a copy of the complete digital archive is currently kept in the National Sound Archive World Music Section there. Iran Heritage Foundation will be involved in the second phase of the project which aims to create a searchable, relational database of the entire archive including bio-bibliographical data on the performers and authors, musical notation for the songs, transcription of the poetry and the commentaries included in the programs. This database will be made available over the internet by means of a purpose-built website linked exclusively to the IHF website.

Adib Khwansari, Mortaza Mahjubi, and Marziya at Maydan-i Arg Radio Studio, Tehran.

The archive as a whole will be a unique cultural resource which can both be enjoyed by students and lovers of Persian culture and also used as a teaching tool for both Persian music and Persian Literature

Project Duration
3 Years – 30% of the work already completed and fully operational by September 2011

Golha References

Flowers of Persian Song and Music: Davud Pirnia and the Genesis of the Golha Programs (PDF by Jane Lewisohn)

SOAS The Gulha Programs CD cover and booklet (PDF)

Future site of Golha project database

Sample Music from Javad Maroufi

Radio Golha

jadidonline.com Golha Program

Golha Project CDs can be ordered from the SOAS Bookshop soon.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Vintage Fashion in Iran: Photographs from the first half of the twentieth century

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:23:19 +0000

Establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979 meant that women were forced to wear Hijab and that it is strictly forbidden for women to be photographed without Hijab.

There was a time, following the military coup of 1920 when women were forced not to wear Hijab. Here are a few photographs from the first half of the twentieth century, the rise of industrial era in Iran.

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You may find many more photos from that era in Portrait Photographs From Isfahan.

Photographer Bahman Jalali, 1944-2010

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:34:28 +0000

By Syma Sayyah, Tehran

Ustad Bahman Jalali was an internationally acclaimed photographer and renowned artist. He had a gentle manner that touched all of those that came to know him, he was good hearted, observant, a private and simple man, but an expert in his field.

He was liked and respected as a teacher and photographer by his colleagues, contemporaries and by his many students and without a doubt has influenced many young photographers deeply.

He was known as a war photographer and covered the Iranian Revolution, and published two books Khorramshahr and Days of Blood, Days of Fire. He was also involved in making documentaries but he is mostly known for the time and devotion that he bestowed on his students and as a real good ustad (teacher) to photographers, photojournalists and his students at the universities that he has taught for many years. He was easily the most popular professor as many students desperately wished to have him as their tutor.

He had collected a large collection of glass negatives from Golestan Palace, and published these in a very interesting book of his, ‘Visible Treasure’. He was curator of Iran’s first photography museum and he exhibited internationally – currently he was participating in an exhibition in Milwaukee. In 2007 he was honoured by the Fundacio AntoniTapies in Barcelona by a retrospective exhibition.

I worked with Bahman Jalali during the three years of the Kaveh Golestan Photojournalism Awards for which he was head of the jury as well as a member of the steering committee. I came to know his gentle yet interesting sense of humour during our many committee meetings and later during less formal dinners and time we all spent together along with our mutual good friend Mrs Golestan. I always found him calm and serene – he spoke his mind, never insisted but let the logic of his point reveal itself.

With his wife, my good friend the photographer Rana Javadi, he lived in a beautiful house in the centre of Tehran where we all went to pay our respects this afternoon. From what I saw today, the pain and sorrow of his students was overwhelming, one of them said to Rana, “I do not know if we are to express our condolences to you or you to us” – this made everybody there watery eyed as this young man let out his emotion and cried his heart out along with all of us present.

Bahman had arrived back in Iran from Germany late last night, saying that he wanted to be under his own lahaf (blanket). On Friday morning he did not feel well and so they went to the Tehran Clinic, where everything seemed under control until suddenly at about 3 in the afternoon, he kissed his wife’s hand and smiled and thanked her and a few minutes later left this world for the next, as calmly and quietly as he was famous for.

He will never be forgotten by all those who loved and respected him and I am sure that he will be looking after loved ones and his students from high above.

His funeral will take place on Sunday morning, 17^th January, commencing at Artists Forum and he will be buried in the Artists plot at Beheshte Zahra.

Please join me sending his soul a prayer and we hope that his loved ones and Iranian photography will be able to bear this loss. We are all surrounded by our memories of him.

May he rest in peace.

Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography from Iran

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:27:41 +0000

Haggerty Museum of Art, through Jan. 17, 2010
Milwaukee, WI

An exhibition of more than 60 works of photography and video installations by 20 of Iran’s most celebrated photographers. The exhibition gathers personal perspectives of contemporary Iran filtered through individual sensibilities, while simultaneously addressing public concerns.

Iran has long distinguished itself with the spectacular quality and international presence of its visual art and film. With the backdrop of increasing attention given to the art and culture of Iran and the current political crisis in that part of the world, an exhibition with this focus is most timely. In expressing their many different visions of their world, these artists offer a look at private and public realms. Their perspectives contradict the way many foreign photographers typically capture Iran on film as purely exotic.

TV series 1- The Light Is Out The Room Is Dark BY:Mehran Mohajer

Shokoufeh Alidousti offers self-portraits and family photographs exploring cultural and female identity. Esmail Abbasi draws on Persian literature for his subject matter with contemporary notes on the present circumstances in Iran. Shahriar Tavakoli focuses on his family history through a series of portraits capturing the subtleties and mood of the Iranian family. In Koroush Adim’s Revelation series, the images in the exhibition that feature the veil acknowledge this sign of culture, but the “revelation” is anything but simple. Shahrokh Ja’fari’s use of unusual spacial rendering in depicting the veiled figure demands that the viewer look harder and think harder about what can be revealed through the visual.

Persepolis BY: Sadegh Tirafkan

The images presented in Persian Visions cannot entirely surmount the physical and cultural distance between Iran and the United States. Nevertheless, the exhibition builds a visual bridge that allows for differences, even as it leads viewers to new awareness of other ways of being and seeing.

Revelations BY: Koroush Adim

Persian Visions was developed by Hamid Severi for the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Iran and Gary Hallman of the Regis Center for Art at the University of Minnesota and toured by International Arts & Artists in Washington, D.C. This exhibition is supported in part by grants from the ILEX Foundation; the University of Minnesota McKnight Arts and Humanities Endowment; and the Department of Art and Regis Center for Art at the University of Minnesota.

Image of Imagination BY: Bahman Jalali

Untitled BY: Ahmad Nateghi

My Family BY: Shahriar Tavakoli

Untiltled BY: Arman Stepanian

Haggerty Museum of Art
Free admission
Open daily: Monday-Saturday

Payvand’s Top 10 Flickr Photos of 2009

admin — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:05:25 +0000

Flickr is one of the best online photo management and sharing applications on the net. This year we have looked over hundreds of photos and here are our top ten photographs posted on Flickr in 2009. It will be fun to see what has attracted viewers in 2009.

Participation criteria for the photo selection was to have the word “Iran” in the photo tag or in the description, plus a high number of views/favorites, and finally uploaded by the photographer in 2009. Please post or link other photos that you find as top rated.

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1- Need For Speed by B A R A N

مسابقه ی هفتگی ویرایش عکس

27,426 views with 194 favorites

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2- Iran: 5th Green Day by Hamed Saber

27e Khordad (June 17th) Haft-e Tir Square (and around streets)

9,132 views with 171 favorites

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3- Rose Flower by Bahman Farzad

The birthplace of the cultivated Rose was probably Northern Persia (Current IRAN)…

6,669 views with 104 favorites

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4- Cute Baby by A.T.E.F.E.H

5,888 views with 292 favorites

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5- Untitled by Ali Shokri

Iran, Tabriz, Miyaneh mountains

2,741 views with 292 favorites

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6- Tulip Duet by magda.indigo

Although tulips are associated with Holland, both the flower and its name originated in the Persian empire…

2,757 views with 65 favorites

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7- Eve of Ashura by Alieh

The Day of Ashura is on the 10th day of Muharram in the Islamic calendar and marks the climax of the Remembrance of Muharram…

3,647 views with 189 favorites

More photographs by Alieh

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8- Spring flag by kavan

Kurdistan, Iran

1,868 views with 182 favorites

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9-Road Man by by Shahram Sharif

Baraghan, Iran

3,028 views with 141 favorites

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10- Peace and Freedom for IRAN by Negar Daneshfar

Jun 22, 2009

Flickr Stats: 2,223 views with 53 favorites

More photographs by Negar Daneshfar

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Honorable mentions

1- Memories of April 1979, People Revolution by * WE * Ahmad & Graça

I dedicate this image to the brave people of my country, who lost their children and loved ones in recent fascistic attacks to peaceful demonstrations in Iran…

More photographs by * WE * Ahmad & Graça

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2- Untitled by Tamishir

More photographs by Tamshir

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3- Iran – Mystery Woman in Virani Caravanserai in Mashhad by Lucie’s Photography

The Ribat-i Sharaf is a caravanserai, or rest place for travellers, that is located in northern Iran between Merv and Nishapur…

More photographs by Lucie’s Photography

Project: One Day – A Collective Narrative of Tehran

admin — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:52:50 +0000

November 4, 2009 – January 23, 2010
Intersection for the art, San Francisco

A project organized by Taraneh Hemami & Ghazaleh Hedayat

Featuring the work of eight artists living in Tehran, Iran; Nima Alizadeh, Saba Alizadeh, Mohammad Ghazali, Ghazaleh Hedayat, Abbas Kowsari, Mehran Mohajer, Neda Razavipour, and Homayoun Sirizi – alongside new work by San Francisco-based artist Taraneh Hemami.

This multi-media exhibition compiles a collective narrative of everyday Tehran, the largest city in the Middle East and the 16th most populated city in the world with close to 8 million residents. Representing the current unpredictability of each day in Tehran and also the hope that comes from imagining a better future, the artists chronicle narratives of place and time, demystifying life in a county that has been misunderstood and maligned for decades.

Abbas Kowsari triptych

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Neda Razavipour still

Gallery Hours: Tuesdays by appointment
Wednesdays–Saturdays, 12-5PM FREE

Opening Reception
Wednesday November 4, 7-9PM FREE
Gallery closed December 20 through January 4

Sat Nov 21, 2009 2PM Readings by The Association of Iranian American Writers
Sat Jan 16, 2010 7PM Artists Talk

Graphic Design by Navid Ghaem Maghami

One Day: A Collective Narrative of Tehran

Photos: The Life of Nomads in Iran

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:18:18 +0000

Nomadic people are communities of people who move from one place to another, rather than settling permanently in one location. There are an estimated 30-40 million nomads in the world. Many cultures have traditionally been nomadic, but traditional nomadic behavior is increasingly rare in industrialized countries.

By 1920 nomadic pastoral tribes were over a quarter of Iran’s population. Tribal pastures were nationalized during the 1960s. The National Commission of UNESCO registered the population of Iran at 21 million in 1963, of whom two million (9.5%) were nomads. Although the nomadic population of Iran has dramatically decreased in the 20th century, Iran still has one of the largest nomadic populations in the world, an estimated 1.5 million in a country of about 70 million.