Tag Archive for: Documentary Photography
Socializing by Azam Rasouli
In the village of Khosban in the city of Taleghan in Iran, an old man and an old woman were sitting in front of their house talking. My father, who had known them before, went and started talking to them. I really enjoyed watching this scene and I wanted to record it forever.
Know the Kolbars by Moslem Azimi
A kolbar is a worker who is employed to carry goods on his/her back across the borders of Iran, Iraq , Syria and Turkey legally or illegally. The situation and working conditions of Kolbar are rarely discussed in the media, usually only in the form of short reports on regional websites such as Telegram about deaths of Kolbar. The Kolbar work under very harsh conditions In the film Time of the Drunken Horses by the film director Bahman Ghobadi, brief insights into the everyday life of the Kolbar are given. In both Iran and Turkey many young male and female kolbars have been shot dead by government forces. In many cases crossing the border is against the law, and the kolbars are shot.
The Happiness of Children by Sandhya Kumari
As you may have already known that smaller forms are usually called doves, larger forms pigeons. An exception is the white domestic pigeon, the symbol known as the “dove of peace.”