TEHRAN -- A new gallery was inaugurated in Tehran on Friday evening with displaying “Snow White”, a photo collection of snow landscapes by Iranian multimedia artist Abbas Kiarostami.
A number cineastes, authors, and artists including Bahman Famanara, Mahmud Dowlatabadi, Parviz Kalantari, Reza Kianian, Hedyeh Tehrani, Loris Tjeknavorian and Afshin Pirhashemi attended the opening ceremony of the gallery entitled Boom.
The collection is composed of 52 photos taken in his hometown Tehran between 1978 and 2003. However, only 24 out of the number have been showcased at the exhibit.
“My photos make my cinema. The medium of photography gives me an opportunity to work with a minimum of equipment,” Kiarostami said during the opening ceremony of the exhibition.
“I am interested in both cinema and photography, but it is obvious that at present, conditions are more favorable for photography, because it does not need permission, investment etc. So, I continue working in this field, but if the necessary conditions are created I will make my films too,” he added.
The gallery also shows a video art from “Roads”, Kiarostami’s other collection of photos of the paths he has taken during his journeys. Both of the collections are in black and white.
Kiarostami praised the gallery for its professional exhibiting space and lighting equipment and said, “The Boom Gallery is the standard… If the works seem showy, it somehow refers to the character of the gallery.”
The exhibition runs until April 19 at the gallery located at 11 Armaghan Alley, Vali-e Asr Ave. near the Niayesh Highway.
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