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Woods’s “Iran, Beyond Stereotype” Series
We’re en route today to the hamlet of Carmel-by-the-Sea on California’s Central Coast, for a weekend of wine, Christmas shopping, oysters, galleries, beaches, hot coffee and cold cream, and photography—in between dreams of owning one of the town’s mossy hermitages, many of which are so aged that their sogged shingles now recall Dali.
This morning I thought I would commend to your attention Paolo Woods’s recent excellent series on improbable Iranians called “Iran, Beyond Stereotype.” (Be certain to make your monitor bright, and view the pictures in full-screen mode.)
Woods is a Canadian photographer now out of Paris. He has spent a good deal of time in Iran—in and out since 1999—but the latest series is an attempt to photograph the westward margin of Iranian life: schools that teach people how to laugh with sufficient heartiness, twenty-something dentresses whose hijabs reveal more hair than they cover as they pry into mens’ mouths, an Iranian Yosemite Sam who hunts narcotics traffickers for the joy of it. A lot of humor in the thinking behind these pictures.
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