Akbar
Nazemi was a young photographer who came back home from studying
photography in Dusseldorf when the Iranian Revolution began
in June 1978. This is the first gallery exhibition of what
are arguably the best photographs of that watershed moment
that has continued to have a powerful global impact to this
day. The images document the reaction to twenty-five years
of rule by The Shah of Iran, as well as the first mass demonstration
of the rise of militant Islam. The negatives were smuggled
out of Tehran in the 1980s. The exhibition contains c. 140
images and it will be offered for touring. Catalogue with
texts by Pantea Haghighi, Asef Bayat and others.
Co-curated
by Pantea Haghighi and Bill Jeffries.
Saturday
March 5, 4pm Artist talk followed by reception
