Sadegh Souri
Iran No Filter #08

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Sadegh Souri | Iran No Filter #08
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Synopsis

Smartphones and social networks have given rise to a new generation of photographers in Iran, who are showing us a daily life that is usually inaccessible to outsiders. Ten of them tell us about the young people they immortalise and to whom they belong. Young people trying to find their place in a paradoxical society, between coercive tradition and liberating Western influence.

Women's issues are at the heart of Sadegh Souri's work. In this episode, he presents his Waiting Girls series, for which he photographed young girls incarcerated in a correctional centre for minors located in the centre of Tehran. While some will be released in a few months or years, others are here awaiting the death penalty.

What you will find in this film

Iranian society in the throes of change • Iranian youth seen from the inside • a new generation in search of independence • the power of social networks • Western culture as an outlet

Keywords

Digital Photography Reportage & Society Creative & Exhibition Photography Emerging Photography
Whether they are there for robbery, murder or drug trafficking, if they could have grown up in a better family, had a different education, they wouldn't be there.
Women's issues are a priority in my work.

Documentaries about photography, and about the people who make it. 
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What you’ll find

Portraits of photographers, names everyone knows and others you’ll discover here. Films about street photography, war, fashion or portraiture, about printing and historical processes. About the trades of photography too. And then suggestions for going further, with Focuses, articles, interviews, bibliographies.

A small independent team

Documentaries about photography were rarely shown on television, and hardly at all on streaming platforms. We created The Darkroom Rumour to give them a place of their own. We are a small team, and we choose every film ourselves, with no school to defend.

Inspire your photography

In these films, you see photographers at work, in the field as well as in the darkroom. If you take pictures, you’ll often come away with an idea to try. If you simply like looking at images, you may start to see them differently.

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The authors/artists

Sadegh Souri
Sadegh Souri
Photographer
Nathalie Masduraud et Valérie Urréa
Nathalie Masduraud et Valérie Urréa
Directors

Further exploration

Selected bibliography

• Ghazal Golshiri and Marie Sumalla, Tu ne meurs pas, GwinZegal, 2023. Publisher · Libraries

• Mahnaz Shirali, Fenêtre sur l'Iran : le cri d'un peuple bâillonné, Éditions les Pérégrines, 2021. Libraries

• Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh, Espace vital : femmes photographes iraniennes, Textuel, 2023. Libraries

• Anahita Ghabaian and Newsha Tavakolian, Iran, année 38 : la photographie contemporaine iranienne depuis la révolution de 1979, Textuel, 2017. Publisher · Libraries

• Anahita Ghabaian and Minou Saberi, 12 Photographic Journeys: Iran in the 21st Century, I.B. Tauris, 2005.

• Marjane Satrapi (ed.), Woman, Life, Freedom, Seven Stories Press, 2024. Publisher · Libraries

Online

• Comment la révolution iranienne est née sur les réseaux sociaux, Marine Protais, L'ADN, 2022 (in French).

• Social Media in Iran's Protests: A New Public Sphere?, Mehdi Khalaji, The Washington Institute, 2022.

• 5 Photographers Show What It's Like to Be a Young Iranian Today, Jacqui Palumbo, Artsy, 2019.

• « Pour la jeune génération en Iran, la photo est une soupape », Julien Bordier, L'Obs, 2023 (in French, paid access).

• Dans l'objectif de Forough Alaei, une jeunesse iranienne en liberté surveillée, Claire Guillot, Le Monde, 2022 (in French, paid access).

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