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These are real individuals who have suffered significant consequences as a result of Iran’s failing economy. Yet the photographs are staged, the grief manufactured. Though the figures appear to be brooding alone in their apartments, they are actually performing loneliness for the camera. Rather than serve as overt political statements, the photographs offer demonstrations of the malaise and anxiety of middle-class Iranians—documentary evidence of a broken system.
Newsha Tavakolian an Iranian photojournalist and documentary photographer
Newsha Tavakolian, “Look,” 2012.courtesy the artist/Thomas Erben GalleryThese are real individuals who have suffered significant consequences as a result of Iran’s failing economy. Yet the photographs are staged, the grief manufactured. Though the figures appear to be brooding alone in their apartments, they are actually performing loneliness for the camera. Rather than serve as overt political statements, the photographs offer demonstrations of the malaise and anxiety of middle-class Iranians—documentary evidence of a broken system.
These are real individuals who have suffered significant consequences as a result of Iran’s failing economy. Yet the photographs are staged, the grief manufactured. Though the figures appear to be brooding alone in their apartments, they are actually performing loneliness for the camera. Rather than serve as overt political statements, the photographs offer demonstrations of the malaise and anxiety of middle-class Iranians—documentary evidence of a broken system.