AFTER THE REVOLUTION: CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY FROM TEHRAN AND CALIFORNIA

*AFTER THE REVOLUTION: CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY FROM TEHRAN AND CALIFORNIA
Curated by Meg Shiffler and Ghazaleh Hedayat
April 16 - June 27, 2008
City Hall
Artist Reception: Wednesday, April16th, 5:30 – 7:30pm
Participating Artists:
Tehran- Mahboube Karamli, Parham Taghioff , Morteza Khaki, Meysam Mahfouz, Mehraneh Atashi
California- Amir H. Fallah, Shadi Yousefian, Elhum Amjadi, Naciem Nikkhah, and Parisa Taghizadeh


After the Revolution is the first substantial exhibition mounted in the US featuring photography by young emerging artists from Tehran. In addition, the work from Tehran will be exhibited alongside photographs by emerging artists of Iranian decent living in California, thus creating a rich dialogue around the hopes and concerns of Iranians and the Iranian Diaspora. After the Revolution will feature approximately 100 photographs by the participating artists. The artists, all under the age of 40, were born around or after the 1978 Iranian Revolution.


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