Sunday, February 1, 2009

Exploring the Other: Contemporary Iran Through the Lens of Iason Athanasiadis

Ah.. I missed this one from last week. Iranian photographer Iason Athanasiadis had his opening reception just last week over in Miracle Mile at the Craft & Folk Art Museum, right across the street from La Brea Tar Pits. The show goes till March 29th.

Iason Athanasiadis, an Oxford graduate and Nieman Fellow at Harvard, has spent more time than almost any other Western journalist living and working in post-revolutionary Iran. Fluent in Persian and enrolled in Iran’s only graduate program open to foreign nationals, Athanasiadis enjoyed unparalleled access to document Iranian society—especially its thriving youth culture. This groundbreaking exhibit presents an alternate view of Iran, as well as explores issues of accuracy in news reporting and the future of international journalism.

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