Iranian Madness

Il settimanale Panorama ha pubblicato un’interessante intervista a Pietro Masturzo, vincitore del World Press Photo Award 2009.
Che emozione che dev’essere stata vivere quelle notti insieme al popolo iraniano!

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Come avevo già scritto in inglese, il premio della World Press per la miglior foto del 2009 è stato assegnato a un giovane fotografo italiano, Pietro Masturzo. E mi fa ovviamente piacere che il soggetto sia iraniano, e precisamente un tetto di una casa di Teheran nei giorni immediatamente successivi alle elezioni del giugno 2009.
Un’interessante [...]

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It’s great to see an Italian photographer, Pietro Masturzo, win the World Press Photo of the year award for 2009 with a picture on Iran.
The black and white photo, showed below, depicts women shouting slogans against the regime from the rooftop of a house in Tehran. This mode of protesting is reminiscent of the 1979 [...]

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It’s interesting to see the ups and downs of the seemingly never-ending relationship between Iran and Italy.
Not many people know that Italy owns the largest private piece of land in Tehran (and probably in the whole Iran): the ambassador’s residence in Farmanieh, with its flourishing garden of rare trees and its Qajar-style buildings, is [...]

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One of the interesting side-effect of the disillusion of the Islamic Revolution in the people of Iran is the tendency to return to ancient Persian roots.
Suffocated by centuries of Islamic domination that only partially managed to change the country’s culture, Persian roots survive and in some cases thrive. By far the most celebrated public holiday [...]

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