honorable mention
Noushin Ourmazd united kingdomPhoto © Noushin Ourmazd
title
Kavir
Iranian women are strong and persistent. They have always stood up against being controlled and submitted.
Since the revolution for the last thirty five years, They have been constrained by Chadoor ( to cover them selves).
Iran's deserts always reminisce me of Iranian women, standing vigorous with tenacity and singing:
My desert blooming,
Sweetness of it’s wild flowers,
Stay hidden from you.
She began nurturing her talent under super vision of her mother, who was an artist, for several years later and naturally pursued art as her degree in UK
After more than 20 years of living under the westernised Shah ‘s regime, she watch her people overturned the Shah in the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Over night, Westernise Iran collapses and it became a country runs by Islamic principals.
Post revolution, Noushin and her family left Iran to live in United Kingdom. For the following 30 years, Noushin experienced a life worlds apart from home, where although people could be free from the onslaught of religious and social pressure, still living under the pressure of the consumer society. Noushin love for Photography which was mostly black and white land scape, has changed during the last few years to a critical view of social, political and cultural issues in less fortunate societies specially Iran, her homeland.
She travel back almost every year to Iran, where she could see the obvious changes and she takes pictures of people and their environment with the aim to show how all the confinement and limitation in Iranian society has caused people confusion and loss of identity.
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entry description
The desert could not be claimed or owned, it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names...Iranian women are strong and persistent. They have always stood up against being controlled and submitted.
Since the revolution for the last thirty five years, They have been constrained by Chadoor ( to cover them selves).
Iran's deserts always reminisce me of Iranian women, standing vigorous with tenacity and singing:
My desert blooming,
Sweetness of it’s wild flowers,
Stay hidden from you.
about the photographer
Noushin Ourmazd was born in Iran in The 1050s. By her late teens, her fascination for Arts was born, In particular for Painting and Photography.She began nurturing her talent under super vision of her mother, who was an artist, for several years later and naturally pursued art as her degree in UK
After more than 20 years of living under the westernised Shah ‘s regime, she watch her people overturned the Shah in the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Over night, Westernise Iran collapses and it became a country runs by Islamic principals.
Post revolution, Noushin and her family left Iran to live in United Kingdom. For the following 30 years, Noushin experienced a life worlds apart from home, where although people could be free from the onslaught of religious and social pressure, still living under the pressure of the consumer society. Noushin love for Photography which was mostly black and white land scape, has changed during the last few years to a critical view of social, political and cultural issues in less fortunate societies specially Iran, her homeland.
She travel back almost every year to Iran, where she could see the obvious changes and she takes pictures of people and their environment with the aim to show how all the confinement and limitation in Iranian society has caused people confusion and loss of identity.
back to gallery