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Akas-khooneh
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“Akas-Kooneh” – A traditional term used in Iran, pertaining to the location where individuals would have their portraits taken, typically at the home of the photographer. Literally translated as “The Photographer’s House”.
A series of family portraits taken in a makeshift studio at the back of a hairdresser’s salon, in the North of Iran.
One of the ladies on the series was running the hairdresser's Salon and she was using the studio to take wedding pictures.
As men were not allowed to enter in to women's hairdressers salons, we had to wait for night time to bring them in, while no one was watching.
She began nurturing her talent under super vision of her mother, who was an artist, for several years later and naturally pursued art as her degree in UK
After more than 20 years of living under the westernised Shah ‘s regime, she watch her people overturned the Shah in the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Over night, Westernise Iran collapses and it became a country runs by Islamic principals.
Post revolution, Noushin and her family left Iran to live in United Kingdom. For the following 30 years, Noushin experienced a life worlds apart from home, where although people could be free from the onslaught of religious and social pressure, still living under the pressure of the consumer society. Noushin love for Photography which was mostly black and white land scape, has changed during the last few years to a critical view of social, political and cultural issues in less fortunate societies specially Iran, her homeland.
She travel back almost every year to Iran, where she could see the obvious changes and she takes pictures of people and their environment with the aim to show how all the confinement and limitation in Iranian society has caused people confusion and loss of identity.
Noushin was a part of a few exhibition in England since 2008. She had a couple of solo exhibition in 2012 and on in 2014 in London.
She got an honourable mentioned From IPA in 2014 and 2015
Her work was short listed in Athen Photo Festival in 2015.
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“Akas-Kooneh” – A traditional term used in Iran, pertaining to the location where individuals would have their portraits taken, typically at the home of the photographer. Literally translated as “The Photographer’s House”.
A series of family portraits taken in a makeshift studio at the back of a hairdresser’s salon, in the North of Iran.
One of the ladies on the series was running the hairdresser's Salon and she was using the studio to take wedding pictures.
As men were not allowed to enter in to women's hairdressers salons, we had to wait for night time to bring them in, while no one was watching.
About author:
Noushin Ourmazd was born in Iran in The 1050s. By her late teens, her fascination for Arts was born, In particular for Painting and Photography.She began nurturing her talent under super vision of her mother, who was an artist, for several years later and naturally pursued art as her degree in UK
After more than 20 years of living under the westernised Shah ‘s regime, she watch her people overturned the Shah in the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Over night, Westernise Iran collapses and it became a country runs by Islamic principals.
Post revolution, Noushin and her family left Iran to live in United Kingdom. For the following 30 years, Noushin experienced a life worlds apart from home, where although people could be free from the onslaught of religious and social pressure, still living under the pressure of the consumer society. Noushin love for Photography which was mostly black and white land scape, has changed during the last few years to a critical view of social, political and cultural issues in less fortunate societies specially Iran, her homeland.
She travel back almost every year to Iran, where she could see the obvious changes and she takes pictures of people and their environment with the aim to show how all the confinement and limitation in Iranian society has caused people confusion and loss of identity.
Noushin was a part of a few exhibition in England since 2008. She had a couple of solo exhibition in 2012 and on in 2014 in London.
She got an honourable mentioned From IPA in 2014 and 2015
Her work was short listed in Athen Photo Festival in 2015.
BACK TO GALLERY
