Artist: Sarah Pannell
Publisher: Perimeter Editions
64 pages / 27 x 21.5 cm / Edition 600 / singer-sewn with hardcover
“Tabriz to Shiraz is debut book project by Melbourne-based photographer Sarah Pannell. The publication draws on a vibrant series of photographs taken during her travels through Iran in 2016 and 2017, which saw her navigate vast stretches of the country. On her first visit, she travelled from the capital, Tehran, north to Qazvin and west to Tabriz, south to Isfahan and Shiraz, and east to Kerman and Yazd, while on her second trip she explored regions such as the Gilan Province, which borders the Caspian Sea, and Kurdistan in the mountainous region bordering Iraq. Beyond that of a mere travelogue, the book assumes a position that flits between the poetic, intimate, incisive and playful in its un-layering of contemporary Iran’s visual, cultural and architectural languages and subjectivities. Across photographic modes spanning portraiture, landscape, architecture and impromptu formalism, Pannell offers a series of vantages on a place that proves at once familiar, foreign and happily jarring in its multiplicity.
Sarah Pannell (b. 1988, Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian documentary photographer whose work concerns culture, landscape, tradition and community. Travelling regularly, Sarah’s work observes how a landscape is marked by both history and accelerated modernisation, capturing the tension between these different influences and the result when past and present collide.”
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『Tabriz to Shiraz』は、メルボルンをベースに活動する写真家Sarah Pannellのデビュー作品集。2016〜2017年にイランを幾度も旅し、またがる広大な一帯を操縦した。これらのイラン旅行で撮影された精力的な写真シリーズ作品を本作に収録。最初の旅では、首都テヘランから北にあるガズビーン、西にあるタブリーズ、南にあるイスファーンとシーラーズ、東側にあるケルマーンとヤズドを訪れた。2回目には、クルド人自治地域であるギーラーンのようなカスピ海がひろがる土地を探求した。単なるトラベルローグではなく、現代のイランのさまざまな姿を写す。詩的、私的、鋭敏、遊び心が見られる。ポートレート、風景写真、建築写真、フォーマリズム的な即興写真といった写真形式をとりながらも、写真家Sarah Pannellの作品は、かつては親しみのある、盛んな外交、人々の幸福があった土地へ多種多様な観点や不調和さを鑑賞者に訴える。
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