Emotional Involvement in 101 Portraits

TEHRAN.(Iranart) – Backstage photographer and actress Gelareh Kiazand has put on display a series of portraits she took from shots in Kiarostami’s drama film “Shirin.”

A total of 101 black-and-white portraits taken from a group of celebrated actresses are on view at Saless Art Gallery, Honaronline reported on its Persian website.

Shirin, a 2008 film by late filmmaker, photographer and producer Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016) shows faces of many notable Iranian heroines as well as Juliette Binoche, the renowned French actress, as they are sitting in an auditorium, watching a film based on the old Iranian tragic romance “Khosrow & Shirin”. A total of 114 actresses are shown in the film.

source: FINANCIAL TRIBUNE