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Signed limited edition print. I had been living in Iran off and on for a few years in 2007-2009, hoping to make a documentary film about an Iranian school. In the midst of location-scouting this documentary I moved into a small village in northern Iran called Pul - which actually means "money" in Farsi. Most of the people living there are historically Kurdish and other groups - a really interesting community, all living in village farm houses on the side of a hill abutting the agricultural fields of a valley in the Alborz Mountains, which run like a crescent around the northern lip of Iran as it meets the Caspian Sea. Honestly, it was one of the most beautiful places I have ever lived, and my neighbors in the village were all wonderful. This tableau of trees and farmland was near the small house where I lived in Pul. In 2008 I was out photographing landscapes as the sun set, and I caught this nice moment of stillness, where the wind had completely stopped and there was nothing but the smell of the grasses and wildflowers. It's difficult to describe the beauty of northern Iran, but I think this series of images begins to capture the unhurried idle of a place still largely detached from the hustle and bustle of modern life that we take so seriously. Being in a place with a long history helps to keep things in perspective and reminds one to focus on the things in life that matter, and to take stock during moments of stillness and meditation. This image is a limited edition of 5 prints 40 x 29 inches, which includes a 2-inch white border (3-inch border on the bottom.) The printed image is 36 x 24 inches Rendered on museum quality Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper, made by a fine art printer using archival inks in the United States. About the paper: Hahnemühle papers are designed for archival storage 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.
2009
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From a multiple Oscar-nominated and Sundance award-winning filmmaker who combines fine art sensibility with a passion for communicating the worlds of civilians caught up in conflict, Longley’s film and photography work witnesses places such as Gaza, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Through an approach best described as Slow Journalism, Longley creates a big picture view from an intimate perspective. Describing Longley's work in the Los Angeles Times in 2019, film critic Kenneth Turan wrote: "What is life like on the ground for ordinary people in another culture, another world? That’s been the bread and butter of observational documentaries for forever, but almost never is it done with the kind of beauty and grace filmmaker James Longley brings to his Afghanistan-set “Angels Are Made of Light.” As his 2006 Oscar-nominated “Iraq in Fragments” demonstrated, MacArthur Fellow Longley, who serves as his own cinematographer as well as directs, has an almost magical ability to envelope us in other realities. He does it via the poetry of his imagery as well as a gift for focused illumination that creates empathetic portraits of people who are both ordinary and intensely involving." ... In 2009 James was named a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2011 a USArtists Ford Fellow. These substantial awards helped to create his most recent filmed and photographic work. James has taught master classes at Hong Kong University, Duke University's Center For The Arts, The Goethe Institute in Kigali, and in Zurich for FOCAL. Longley has been nominated for two Academy Awards and won three Jury Awards at Sundance - for Directing, Cinematography, and Editing - among many other heartwarming accolades. 35mm prints of Longley's filmed work can be found in the archives MoMA, The Academy Film Archive, the Duke University Archive, Wesleyan University, The Northwest Film Forum and the Library of Congress. A portion of James' income from the sale of these images goes to support the people he has filmed and worked with the past - particularly in Afghanistan. Please visit James' portfolio site at for more photography and films, and to contact him for custom printing or to commission work.
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