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-In essence, Afnan's work is about memory, and her images of eroding traces, faces and places linger long in the memory.---Rose Issa, from the preface

Maliheh Afnan's work appears -as a relic of an older civilization or an archaeological excavation into the collective psyche. The delicacy of Persian miniatures and manuscripts, which she remembers from childhood, is mirrored in her love for intimate scale and the refined beauty of muted colour.-

Calligraphy plays an important role: images appear that suggest the written word. Works on paper and tablets of painted plaster are...

Being a woman in Iran is hard, and working as a woman photographer is even harder. Shadi Ghadirian

Shadi Ghadirian is one of Iran s leading contemporary photographers. Born in Tehran in 1974, she has exhibited widely in Europe and the United States, and her work has been collected by museums worldwide.

She came to the limelight in the late 1990s with her Qajar series, in which she examines the paradoxical position of women in Iran. Women in traditional clothing pose with items such as a mountain bike or a boom box.

Rose Issa is a freelance curator, specializing in...

This publication considers the work of 50 key artists, ranging from important pioneers of the calligraphic movement to those who use the written word in their work today. The book begins with a contribution from Venetia Porter, curator of Islamic...