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May 08, 2008
X-manhole
Some of us are looking at the stars, I am happy taking pictures of the gutter.
>> Click here to see more photos
March 31, 2008
Holy Ghosts
A covered Paso in a church in Granada
Semana Santa (Holy Week) is one of the most important traditional events of Andalucia. It is celebrated in the week leading up to Easter. The week features the procession of pasos, floats of lifelike wooden sculptures of different scenes of the events of the Passion or images of the Virgin Mary or other saints.
A Paso (Spanish for Pace or Step) is an elaborate float carried by costaleros and are usually followed by a band. Some have long skirts that cover the bearers entirely, giving the impression that the statue is floating on its own power.
March 26, 2008
Celestial Patterns
The patterns in Spain stay mainly in the southern plain!
>> I went pattern hunting in southern Spain. Click here to see the results.
March 11, 2008
Cyberman
Self portrait as a Cyborg
>> Self portrait as a Pencil
>> All eyes
January 15, 2008
January 14, 2008
Crack in Modern Art
January 13, 2008
January 11, 2008
Discarded items
Painting of a cigarette butt and a discarded blue Wellington boot!
December 18, 2007
October 10, 2007
Arsenal
>> Here is the original photo I took last Sunday.
September 25, 2007
Top Teen City
Photo of Jafar Aref-Adib Street in Tehran taken by H. Sharififar
My cousin Jafar fought in the Iran-Iraq War and was subsequently killed in action.
September 24, 2007
Life Goes On in Tehran
>> Here is a photoblog by a former Los Angeles resident who recently moved to Tehran.
September 19, 2007
City Hall
March 20, 2007
Iranian New Year
>> Here are more photos of the magnolia tree in Kenwood Park that I took four days ago.
November 27, 2006
Leaf on windscreen
An autumn leaf on my windscreen.
>> view the original photos here
November 20, 2006
Autumn 2006
I have never seen a willow,
selling its shade to a meadow;
Elm happily gives its branch to the crow.
Wherever there is a leaf,
passion blossoms in me.
Sohrab Sepehri
October 13, 2006
Maxzilla
Max doing a Godzilla impression at Trafalgar Square!
September 29, 2006
September 19, 2006
August 08, 2006
Stop the War
The Stop the War demonstration on Saturday 5 August brought tens of thousands of people onto London's streets. This is unprecedented for a protest called with only one week's notice. The march started at noon at the Speaker's Corner, in Hyde Park, passed by the United States Embassy and Downing Street, and ended in Parliament Square.
The protestors placed children's shoes outside Downing Street and at the Cenotaph.
August 07, 2006
The New Gallery
July 31, 2006
Cooling down
July 10, 2006
The Monument
The 311 spiral steps of The Monument.
We went up to the top of The Monument. An observation deck at the top has a great view over London. Designed by Sir Christopher Wren to mark the Great Fire of London in 1666. It is the tallest freestanding stone column in the world.
June 30, 2006
Highgate Dead Centre
Here are some photos I took last February at Highgate Cemetery - or Highgate Dead Centre as Max calls it!
June 16, 2006
May 14, 2006
May 12, 2006
May 10, 2006
Nature's Confetti
May 04, 2006
London Aquarium
Today I spent an afternoon with Max watching sharks & tropical fish at the London Aquarium.
May 02, 2006
May 01, 2006
April 25, 2006
North Circular Road
April 24, 2006
Toys
April 21, 2006
April 19, 2006
Tourist for a day
Fallout
>> The human cost of nuclear catastrophe
April 26 2006 marks the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Dutch photographer Robert Knoth has visited the area worst hit by radioactive fallout to document the toxic legacy of Chernobyl and other nuclear accident sites of the former Soviet Union. The Fallout exhibition runs from April 18 to May 14 at the Oxo Tower in London.
April 11, 2006
Waterloo Bridge
This is another picture I took on the London's South Bank with my mobile phone.
And here is the same bridge by Claude Monet:
April 05, 2006
Sizdah Bedar
>> 12+1 photos of Sizdah Bedar 2006 in Trent Park, North London
The thirteenth day of the Iranian New Year festival is Sizdah Bedar (meaning "thirteen outdoors"), is a day of festivity in the open, often accompanied by music and dancing. The day is usually spent at family picnics.
The thirteenth day celebrations stem from the belief of the ancient Persians that the twelve constellations in the Zodiac controlled the months of the year, and each ruled the earth for a thousand years. At the end of which, the sky and the earth collapsed in chaos. Hence, Norooz lasts twelve days and the thirteenth day represents the time of chaos when families put order aside and avoid the bad luck associated with the number thirteen by going outdoors and having picnics and parties.
At the end of the celebrations on this day, the sabzeh grown for the Haft Sin (which has symbolically collected all the sickness and bad luck) is thrown into running water to exorcise the demons (divs) from the household. It is also customary for young single women to tie the leaves of the sabzeh before discarding it, so expressing a wish to be married before the next year's Sizdah Bedar.
March 24, 2006
South Bank
This is a picture I took on the London's South Bank. Inside Out, a weekend of free music, theatre and performance of every variety, takes over the South Bank on 24 - 26 March.
February 26, 2006
The Bam Project
A year after the earthquake in Bam, the non-profit organistaion Picture People equipped selected people with Kodak one-time-use cameras to document everyday life as the city tried to rebuild. At the end of 2005, Picture People went back to Bam to follow up the project. Cameras were handed out to some of the original participants while new people were invited to join in.
>> See the project on the Picture People website
January 07, 2006
City of light by night
Paris, the city of light, by night.
I took these pictures few days ago with my new mobile phone.
December 09, 2005
Time's Arrow Passing By
Every year an Argentinean family goes through a private ritual and photograph themselves.
The result is moving.
Link via the eyeranian.
September 21, 2005
Strongmen look-alikes
Art imitates Life, Life imitates Art:
The top picture is of Anthony Quinn in the Federico Fellini's film La Strada.
The bottom picture is taken by a Hungarian photojournalist this year and shows an Iranian strongman in Tajrish Square, Tehran.
January 26, 2004
Snapshots
I love the snapshots by Medi, a 26-year-old Iranian living in Oslo, Norway.
His snapshots are glimpses of his life, with immediacy and honestly that transports us instantly into his world. His pictures remind me a bit of Wolfgang Tillmans' work.
January 23, 2004
Daily dose of imagery
Sam Javanrou is an Iranian designer who lives in Toronto, Canada. In his excellent photoblog - Daily dose of imagery - he posts photos daily. Definitely worth a visit!
December 09, 2003
Photographs of London
Matt Stuart's photographs of London are great. Check them out.
December 05, 2003
A thousand words
Here are some shocking photographs that provides the human context to some recent crisises.