The Government of 80

Title: The Government of 80

Photographer(s): Maryam Zandi

Writer(s): Mahmoud Reza Bahmanpour

Designer(s): Roshanak Mafi

Publisher(s): Nazar Art Publication, Tehran, Iran

Year: 2019

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Language(s): Farsi, English

Pages: 148

Size: 25 x 32 cm

Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket

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Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Iran, 1980

ISBN:9786001522710

"Until the end of year 1980, I tried to photograph the society after revolution and things that were happening on the streets. I resisted till mid-1981, but gradually the limitations and intimidations for taking photos on streets and in public gatherings reached to a point that I couldn’t continue my work anymore and I was forced to shift to photography in indoors and safer places. I was forced to move to closed spaces, and from 1981 I started the ‘Portraits’ project, although for 9 years (until the ban was lifted from the exhibitions) I was not allowed to exhibit the ‘Portraits’."

Maryam Zandi