People in distance is the name of a
black and white photography
Monochrome photography is photography where each position on an image can record and show a different ''amount'' of light, but not a different hue. It includes all forms of black-and-white photography, which produce images containing shades of ...
project implemented by
Hossein Rajabian, the Iranian photographer. The photos were taken for a charity auction. This project started from 2006 and continued until the arrest of Hossein Rajabian in 2014. For this project, analogue and
digital cameras were used for a better expression of the texture of the photos depending on the existing setting and subject.
The theme of the photograph collection
People in distance includes the
portrait photographs
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this re ...
of the inhabitants of the most remote areas of Iran, and they are not seen in big cities. It was arranged that this photography project cover the portraits of children of
Iran and provide them to
UNICEF for the support of Iranian children. However, this arrangement was never accomplished due to the arrest of the photographer and seizure of the photographs by the Iranian intelligence forces.
Arrest of the photographer and seizure of photographs
A large number of photographic negatives and digital records of these photos were seized by the intelligence forces of Iran, and there remained only a few number of low-quality photos. The high quality versions of these photographs have never been returned to their owner and photographer after being seized by the Iranian
Intelligence Agency.
References
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Sources and external links
Amnesty Internationalwashington postInternational Campaign for Human Rights in Iranculture action europeCoverage by The Guardian of Hossein Rajabian’s sentenceCoverage by PEN International of Hossein Rajabian’s sentenceCoverage by Freemuse (165 Iranian artists and activists protest charges against two musicians and a filmmaker)Covereage by CNN ArabiczhmagCovereage by AL JAZEERA ArabicInternational Film Festival ClermontThe 10 Best Iranian Films of 2015Hossein Rajabian Official WebsiteHossein Rajabian youtube Channel
Photographic collections and books