Contemporary Iranian photography on the Black Snapper
Candlestar director, Fariba Farshad, was invited by the online photography magazine The Black Snapper to be guest curator for a series on contemporary Iranian photography. The Black Snapper presents a new artist every day along with a slideshow of their work, and features guest curators who are asked to select photographers and up to 20 photos for each, within their area of expertise. Previous guest curators have included Olga Sviblova, Joerg Colberg and Lesley Martin of the Aperture Foundation.
Fariba selected seven photographers whose work is characterised by a fascination with theatrical themes - Sadegh Tirafkhan, Ramin Haerizadeh, Abbas Kowsari, Reza Aramesh, Fataneh Dadkhah, Shadi Ghadirian, and Abbas Kiarostami. ‘The images I selected by seven very distinctive Iranian photographers each of whom, in their own very particular way, presents us with glimpses of dramas unfolding or gone. We move from the wide, dramatic and populous scenes made by Sadegh Tirafkan and Abbas Kowasri to the individual, the face and the seemingly empty scenes created by Shadi Ghadirian and Abbas Kiarostami. Each of the dramas they have chosen springs from the culture, history and religious life of the Region.’
Click here to read the series.