Tehran – Dortmund
Philipp Robin, Germany
Negar Shirazi, Iran
Jann Höfer, Germany
Arezou Babaie, Iran & Sabrina Dietz, Germany
Julia Sellmann, Germany
Atefeh Alaei, Iran
Kimiya Nik, Iran
Soha Asadi, Iran
Sina Davari, Iran
Sadra Bagheri, Iran
Stephan Lucka, Germany
Elaheh Abiri, Iran
Sofia Brandes, Germany
Flint Stelter, Germany
Tim Brederecke, Germany
Mina Abaspanah, Iran
Shiva Farhang, Iran
Golrou Aliabadizadeh, Iran
Fatemeh Lari, Iran & Nelly Dreidt, Germany
Lena Schlösser, Germany
Sebastian Kruthoffer, Germany
People came from everywhere: friends, colleagues, families or just interested persons, to celebrate together with the authors the success of the workshop. The photographic results are amazingly good and all guests as well as members of the photography conference were surprised about the high level of quality of the photographic works.
On Saturday afternoon the symposium Contemporary Iranian Photography took place at Farabi Salon on the campus of University of Art, Tehran, organized by the department of photography. As speakers were invited four Iranian photographers. In the field of documentary photography it was Fatemeh Behboudi and Saeed Faraji, Zeinab Saghafi and Amir Azari were representing fine art and commercial photography. Dr. Neda Amiralaei was overtaking translation and moderation.
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The First Evaluation, let’s see how is the project going?
3/5/2018
On Thursday morning the students gather at university to show their first attempts to the teachers and also discuss it between the other students. They have already passed three photographic phases during the last days in the huge city of Tehran. Every team worked hard and eagerly to reach the first outcome. There were advises by teachers and from student colleagues paving the way for continuing the work and getting better results.
As soon as a holiday breaks out in Iran, it attracts many Tehranians early in the morning into the mountains. So too our Professors Fahrhad Solemani. Mariyam Kalvand, Jörg Winde and I decided to follow them into nature.