‘Interconnected: Father and Daughter Faridanis’ Yerevan Pictures Exhibition

YEREVAN — On September 23, at 2 p.m., the opening ceremony of the exhibition Interconnected: Father and Daughter Faridanis came about on the Tekeyan Center. The audio system included the exhibition’s curator, Anahit Koryun; Director of the Cultural Center of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Armenia Mohammad Asadi Movahed; and Nicole Faridani’s daughter, Catrine Faridani.

Nicole Faridani (1936–2008), of Armenian origin, is acknowledged as one of many key figures of recent Iranian images, whose status started to develop within the second half of the twentieth century. As a photographer, he labored throughout a number of fields concurrently. For almost twenty years, throughout his tenure on the Iran-Italy Oil Company and the Iranian Oil Consortium, he specialised in geological images, photomicrography, and aerial images, spending greater than 300 hours in flight and pioneering these genres in Iran. At the identical time, Faridani traveled extensively all through the nation, incomes the title ‘photographer of the desert.’

Over fifty years of journey throughout Iran’s provinces, he created greater than 60,000 negatives, of which 8,000–9,000 doc the life and settlements of the Armenian group in Iran, lots of which have since disappeared.

The central focus of Faridani’s inventive work was Iran itself: its landscapes, historical past, cultural monuments, and its folks, with their historic traditions and customs. The present exhibition presents a collection of his celebrated black-and-white pictures on these themes, most of them created throughout the early stage of his profession, between 1955 and 1975.

Catrine Faridani lives and works in Canada. With twin skilled coaching, she addresses social points by means of her inventive apply. Specializing in documentary images, she offered her mission Interconnected, which explores how consuming water in Toronto reaches customers and subsequently returns to its supply.

The occasion was organized by the Tekeyan Cultural Association of Armenia. The exhibition will stay open till September 28.