Afro-Iran Photo Book
The first photobook on the Afro-Iranian community consisting of more than 45 portraits. A neglected chapter of Iranians of African descent in the Iranian history and the African diaspora.
Title: Afro-Iran
Author/Artist: Mahdi Ehsaei
Forewords: Joobin Bekhrad, Nahid Mozaffari
Translations: Ali Ettehad, Nahid Mozaffari
Size: ca. 23 x 28 cm, cloth hardcover
Volume: 96 pages with 52 color photographs
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag (Heidelberg, Germany)
ISBN 978-3-96900-133-2
The first photobook on the Afro-Iranian community consisting of more than 45 portraits. A neglected chapter of Iranians of African descent in the Iranian history and the African diaspora.
Title: Afro-Iran
Author/Artist: Mahdi Ehsaei
Forewords: Joobin Bekhrad, Nahid Mozaffari
Translations: Ali Ettehad, Nahid Mozaffari
Size: ca. 23 x 28 cm, cloth hardcover
Volume: 96 pages with 52 color photographs
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag (Heidelberg, Germany)
ISBN 978-3-96900-133-2
An introduction to a photo book by German-Iranian photographer Mahdi Ehsaei depicting the little known minority of Afro-Iranians in South Iran in fascinating portraits. Follow this link to support the project: http://kck.st/1PIgEv8 Afro-Iran shows a side of Iran, which is widely unknown even to Iranians: a minority of people who influenced the culture of a whole region by continuing their African heritage with their clothing style, their music, their dance and their oral traditions and rituals.
