{"id":3357,"date":"2011-11-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/?p=3357"},"modified":"2011-11-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T00:00:00","slug":"omid-salehi-a-photographers-journey-through-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/omid-salehi-a-photographers-journey-through-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Omid Salehi: A Photographer&#8217;s Journey through Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\u201cPhotography is not only his language,\u201d said Magnum photographer Abbas about the work of Iranian Omid Salehi, \u201cit is also his passion&#8230;. When you have the passion, the rest is easy.\u201d <em>Omid Salehi: A Photographer\u2019s Journey through Iran<\/em>, edited by art curator Rose Issa, is a visual feast through the country and its Shi\u2019a Islam faith. However these photographs show a more nuanced, secret side of a country and religion much in the news. Baqer Moin, former head of BBC Persian Service and founder of Jadid Online, explains in his essay included in the book, \u201cThe narratives of photo-storytellers like Omid go deep into the social and psychological interactions of a dynamic society on the move, something that catchy political photos and headlines may not always convey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Wallpaintig_Tehran\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Wallpaintig_Tehran.jpg?resize=470%2C313&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"313\" width=\"470\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Historically, photography fared better than other art forms in Iran due to the obsession of Qajar monarch Naser al-Din Shah (1831\u201396), who fell in love with the medium and photographed the 84 wives in his harem. The Iranian Revolution and the Iran\u2013Iraq war spurred a generation of documentary black and white photographers in the style of Robert Capa, which included Abbas. However it was the regime\u2019s increasing disdain (and persecution) of social realism by documentary filmmakers and photographers that made image-makers in Salehi\u2019s age group dedicate themselves to capturing their country\u2019s social transformation through an artistic prism, one that became enormously popular after the 2009 disputed presidential elections \u2013 art in contemporary Iran became the last bastion of freedom of expression. New technology and what journalist Coco Ferguson identifies in the book as \u201cthe modernity of tradition\u201d are the defining factors in Salehi\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"wallpainting-walls-USA-embassy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/wallpainting-walls-USA-embassy.jpg?resize=470%2C313&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"313\" width=\"470\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Salehi\u2019s \u2018Urban Murals\u2019 series charts social history, from anodyne images of rolling fields and fathers carrying children on their backs \u2013 those are the modern ones \u2013 to the stereotypical images of Ayatollah Khomeini and war martyrs. Also included is a mural of US stars and stripes in the shape of gun at the American Embassy in Iran, by a collective of artists, headed by Hannibal Alkhas, that painted socially-engaged images on walls during the revolution. However, against this often-violent backdrop, the life of an indifferent city continues unabated. Little boys camp out in a tent next to a folkloric, almost artistically-naive public wall painting showing <em>basijis<\/em> (members of volunteer paramilitary militias) going to war. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"wallpainting-shiraz\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/wallpainting-shiraz.jpg?resize=470%2C313&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"313\" width=\"470\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the series \u2018Mashhad Studio Pilgrims\u2019, Salehi makes intimate studio portraits of visitors to the 10th century city \u2013 photographs are forbidden in front of ancient holy sites. The photographer calls his subjects into the ornately-embellished studio space: a woman brings bread or a family automatically segregates itself (the man on one side alone, his two women companions keeping their own company in the other edge of the frame) \u2013 hence moving the photograph into the realm of installation. Tehran itself provides the biggest conundrum; a painting of the city on a building predicts a tattered, unloved future. However, it is Salehi\u2019s impressive panorama views which illustrate that the Islamic capital of Tehran is essentially a secular, soulless city built by American architects, complete with a grid system and ghastly skyscrapers. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Mashhadstudio\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Mashhadstudio.jpg?resize=469%2C321&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"321\" width=\"469\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"View-of-Tehran\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/View-of-Tehran.jpg?resize=469%2C313&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"313\" width=\"469\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p> While Abbas, in his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jadidonline.com\/images\/stories\/flash_multimedia\/Omid_salehi_photographer_eng_test\/om_high.html\">interview on Jadid Online<\/a>, has said abou the book that he misses Salehi\u2019s distinctive documentary work in the book (Maziar Bahari and I published his black and white series on the mystical cleric Haj Amjad in <em>Transit Tehran<\/em>), as well as the photographer\u2019s shocking before and after images of plastic surgery, he praised Salehi\u2019s development in his use of colour. The green neon light that permeates the Ashura exhibition showing the martyrs Husayn and Ali is effective, both visually and metaphorically, given that green is the hue of Islam. Salehi\u2019s timely photo album of Iran is filled with patterns of darkness and light, historical intrigue and surprising beauty.<br \/>Malu Halasa<\/p>\n<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: left;\" class=\"review_photo\" alt=\"Omid_Salehi_cover\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Omid_Salehi_cover.jpg?resize=150%2C189&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"189\" width=\"150\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Omid Salehi: A Photographer&#8217;s Journey through Iran<\/em> is published by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.roseissa.com\/current%20publ\/Omid\/omid-publ-im1.html\">Beyond Art Production<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>Malu Halasa reviews Omid Salehi&#8217;s new book, edited by Rose 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