Kaveh Golestan - Recording the Truth in Iran
Photographic Exhibition - Gallery
November 10 - December 19, 2008
London School of Economics and Political Science, Atrium Gallery, Old Building, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE
Kaveh Golestan's black & white photography covering the period from 1975 to the late 1990s.
Images from the exhibition
 Masked militia man Khozestan Iran 1980 |
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 Armed militia men Khozestan 1980 |
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 Friends overcoat Students show the blood of a martyr falling during protests Tehran Jan 26 1979 |
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 Kurdish girl Kurdistan Iran Spring 1981 |
 An old lady who has lost her house in a missile attack Iran-Iraq war Iran 1983 |
 In the village of Ghalatan a funeral follows a massacre. The victims name and village is written on the grave stone |
 Kurdish boy with a bandage Kurdistan, Iran, August 1980 |
 A student mourns a friend shot outside Tehran University, 1979 |
 Funeral in Ghalatan village Kurdistan Iran |
 Many young boys volunteered to serve in the Basij a paramilitary force founded by Khomeini in 1979 |
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 Young basiji, front line, Iran-Iraq war, Iran, 1981-82 |
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 My brother is gone |
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 A demonstrator kicks cannister of tear gas back towards the police near Tehran university, 1978 |
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 Empty handed, a man tries to fight with the soldiers who have just killed his brother, while onlookers try to calm his down |
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 Mother and wounded child in hospital, Iran-Iraq war, Iran , 1981 |
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 Reading the Quran, front line, Iran-Iraq war, Ahvaz, Iran, September 1982 |
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 Refugees in Ahwaz,Iran, 1983 |
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 The first day of martial law in Isfahan |
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 The Iranian army practise manouvers during the intervals between battles, Abadan, Iran, February 1983 |
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 The Shah is Gone, Tehran, January 16, 1979, The day the Shah left Iran |
 Workers demonstration in Tehran, 1979 |
 Young boy holding his school books firmly while throwing stones at soldiers |
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 Wounded Child - Iran-Iraq War |
 Wounded in the desert, Iran-Iraq war, 1983, Iran |
 Ayatollah Khomeini on the balcony, Tehran, February 1979 |
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