Juice Stand, Tehran - Limited Edition of 5 Photograph

I started traveling to Iran in 2007 and was lucky enough to live for over a year in the country before the political turmoil of the green uprising stopped my documentary film and photographic work in the spring of 2009. One of my favorite photographs that I took while living in Tehran is this image of two Iranian men talking at a juice stand in south Tehran. Night was just coming on, and because the light is balanced for the green fluorescents inside the shop the light on the street is turned deep purplish blue - a wonderful color. Mostly it's the color and the atmosphere of evening light that I like about this somehow beautiful but otherwise prosaic scene. Also, the normality of life in Iran was something that I wanted to stress in my photography work there. We in the west tend to have a very distorted and unrealistic idea of what Iran is like, and by recording the real Iran that I experienced, I hope to dispel some of those misconceptions. A limited edition of five prints only at this size. (Open edition prints of this image sold on SaatchiArt have a small lightly printed title and attribution below the image area.) The signed print is 34 x 24 inches, which includes a 2-inch white border. The printed image area is 30 x 20 inches This is a loose print, unframed and unmounted. This limited edition print is rendered on museum quality Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper, printed by a fine art printer using archival inks in the United States. About the paper: This is a 300 gsm paper, meaning it is 300 grams per square meter, and feels heavy and substantial to the touch. I am making photographs as one might make paintings - in the sense that these are not action shots, mainly, but contemplations. I like the matte texture of this paper for the way it creates a painterly richness and lack of glare from the surface. In the hands of my printer the black tones of the Hahnemühle paper are deep, substantial, and pleasurable to the eye. Hahnemühle papers are designed for archival storage and are acid-free, which makes them highly resistant to ageing. The paper is also lignin-free, which means it should consist of linters or alpha-cellulose. Lignin-free paper does not yellow.

Photography:Color on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:5

Size:34 W x 24 H x 0.1 D in

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