I source original, censored packaging from Iran.
Packaging in which the women have been erased.
Inked out, individually, by hand.I remove the blacked-out figure from the surrounding image,
and a transformation occurs. (mehr …)
Alireza Abbasy | Portraits of professions
November 2011, Esfahan, Iran.
It’s an ancient and prosperous city with a population of 3.5 million, and used to be the capital of the country for a few centuries. The city is proud of its contributions to the Iranian society and culture, proud of the exceptional novelists, poets, musicians, and composers who grew up in, and were nurtured by city of Esfahan. (mehr …)
Googoosh – Talaagh (1971)
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