Friday, July 4, 2008 
Hey, remember when we said we were going to the Noor Film Festival red carpet thingy? No? Well, we went. And Amy Malek - Pars Arts contributor, anthropology genius, NGO-starter, and fearless press photographer extraordinaire - took some amazing photos that you should definitely not miss. Seriously, it was elbows-out in this press pit and […]
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The photo blog Life Goes on in Tehran highlights ordinary Tehran life in an effort to dispel Western myths and poorly slanted media coverage about Iran. It has a very insider quality that makes you feel like you’re on your own Tehran visit. The man behind the site, 28-year-old Azad (last name withheld for reasons […]
Filed under: BLOGS, CULTURE, INTERNET, INTERVIEWS, INTERVIEWS WITH YOUNG IRANIANS, IRAN, PHOTOGRAPHY
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The New Yorker has a piece on Shirin Neshat this week, and there’s a slide show on their website: check it out. The image above is from Neshat’s film “Zarin,” which is based on Shahrnush Parsipur’s excellent feminist novel, Women Without Men.
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Vice magazine has a freaky photo essay of an Iranian wedding, shot two years ago by sister-of-the-bride Sanna Sjöswärd. One of the photos is above. Sjöswärd was born in Iran, placed in an orphanage by her parents, and adopted by Swedes when she was four. She just came out with a book called “Roots” […]
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I’m excited to announce the first Pars Arts-commissioned photography, featured in our homepage sidebar. Refresh the page, and each time you’ll see one of eight beautifully shot pictures of Persian artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The photos we had there before were almost all pulled from the web, so it’s great to have […]
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Seattle-based designer/photographer Arash Shiva just sent a link to photos he took in Iran within the last month (see Iran one and Iran two on his site). I apologize because I cropped the one above to better fit this page; the original is here, on his photoblog Gentle Sea. The haze over the city makes […]
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A couple of weeks ago, Iranian artist and journalist Haleh Anvari performed/presented a piece called “The Power of a Cliché: Representing Iranian Women” at the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC, in conjunction with IAAB’s TRANSFORM/NATION art exhibit. She’s pictured here, albeit blurry, with one of her own images that’s part of a larger project called […]
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