By Paul Sanford
Last Friday, Haleh Anvari’s new
exhibition of photographs Chador
Dadar opened in the Etemad Gallery in Tehran. It was a very crowded and busy
gathering on the first snowy night of the winter in North
Tehran.
Haleh is a talented photographer
whose photographs show the chador, traditionally a black all-encompassing tent
which covers the wearer from head to toe, in a totally different light. Haleh’s chadors are a rich and vivid
mixture of red, blue, green and orange fabrics, and are really
eye-catching.
The most intriguing point about this
exhibition was the location of the photographs, ranging from London, Paris, Dubai, the Taj Mahal and Istanbul.
they show how the multi-colored chadors attracted reactions from the
local people in each city in front of well known monuments. I thought that the photographs set
in Paris and Istanbul were
outstanding.
I have a few photographs to share
with you.
The exhibition runs until
13th December from 3pm to 8pm.
It is closed on the 8th November.
Gallery Etemad, Darous, Shahrzad Blvd,
Yaar Mohammadi
Street, Zafari St No 5. Tel 22599127
See also Haleh’s previous
exhibition
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