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Masood Zeraatkar
MA in Photography, University of Tehran
Collector: Amirbahador Bayat
This book was done as the final project of my BA in Photography and Mr. Yaghmaeian guided me through this project. Its initial idea started two terms earlier in a class I had with Mr. Mohajer, but it changed then a lot. The first idea was to photograph my friends who wanted to immigrate. I was interviewing them,
asking what they are going to take with themselves and what they are going to leave behind. I talked to them more about their feelings and motivations. From each interview, I selected some parts, and tried to relate them to the photographs. However, something was missed. In this process, something was lost. It was necessary for people to be placed in one context to be understood. For me, this was possible through storytelling. A story that may have been made, but can easier reach the layers. Thew book was created with the photographs that I captured and put them in one context by storytelling. Putting the image and text beside each other formed a whole unit.