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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 field is just down hill from the small house where I lived in Pul. In the spring of 2009 I was out photographing landscapes as a small storm blew through, and I caught this nice moment where the wind just starts to blow down across a still wheat field. I had that moment when you know the time is right to make a photograph, and took it. The air was so fresh and the bluster of the storm brought in a rush of negative ions that was quite intoxicating. Technical: I tried several times, using bracketed exposures to capture the full dynamic range of the scene, and caught it at the right moment by chance. I like to photograph everything hand-held for the spontaneity - including landscape photography. This photograph was taken with a Canon 1Ds Mark II, which was the first DSLR that could really take beautiful pictures that competed with film-based images. The lens is a Canon 16-35mm, set to 16mm to give an immersive, walk-in feel to the image. I wanted to have the sensation of being able to step through, to feel the elements - so I wanted it to look wide enough to resemble human vision, and I adjusted the color to give the strongest sense of presence and muted realism from the print. This image is a limited edition of 25 prints 40 x 25 inches, which includes a 2-inch white border The printed image is 36 x 20 inches Signed limited edition print 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.
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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 www.jameslongley.com for more photography and films, and to contact him for custom printing or to commission work.
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