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IRANIAN WEEKS OF PHOTOGRAPHY WEEK 2: DANCE OF TRIBES – IRANIAN WEDDING Photography by HASAN SARBAKHSHIAN

Opening hours: 02. – 08. March 2008, 14 – 18 PM

Vernissage: 01. March 2008, 18 – 21 PM

PENGLAND | REICHKLARASTRASSE 2-4 | 55116 | MAINZ

DANCE OF TRIBES – IRANIAN WEDDING In Iran, the country older than the history, older than religion, older than war and peace, among tribes and nomads, among ethnics and religions which have the sense of ancientness and being, his camera was a seeker of love’s symbols , weddings in different colours and customs, different music and clothes, different prays and wishes. His pictures are here to introduce a face of this land, the face of dancing the tribes for love.

Hassan Sarbakhshian, born in 1968 in the city of Tabriz (Iran), working as a photographer for the U.S. Associated Press news agency since Nov. 1999, holder of a bachelor’s degree in photography, 1998, photos Printed in international periodicals and magazines include: Newsweek, Time, Economist, Novel Observator, New York Times, Washington Post, …, has won several awards since 1995, attended more than 70 national and international solo and group photo exhibition, published the book “Time Pulse”, in 2005 in English and Persian, contains daily photographic reports and notes by Hassan Sarbakhshian over a period of eight years (1997-2005).
www.hasanpix.com

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IRANIAN WEEKS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
WEEK 2: GLASS EYE – AN OUTLOOK [solo photo exhibition]
Photography by IRAJ MEHREGAN

Opening hours: 02. – 08. March 2008, 14 – 18 PM
Vernissage: 01. March 2008, 18 – 21 PM
PENGLAND | REICHKLARASTRASSE 2-4 | 55116 | MAINZ

GLASS EYE – AN OUTLOOK
Iraj Mehregan’s “Glass Eye” has attempted to capture usual and sudden daily events. This collection contains pictures, which mostly have been captured between 2005 – 2007 in Germany.

Iraj Mehregan,

born in 1975 in Gachsaran (Iran), has been started photography since
1993, graduated from Isfahan University in 1997 (B.Sc.) and Shahid
Beheshti University in Tehran in 2001 (M.Sc.) in field of plant sciences,
has been studied Biology (Molecular Systematics) as PhD student since
2004 in Germany (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), scheduled
to be graduated in May 2008. He is also the director of FOTO.IR, The
photography website for Persian Photographers.

www.imehregan.com