"Slideshow" | First Episode | "War Memoirs of Kaveh Kazemi": Dastan:Outside [Focus Room 05]
18 September - 9 October 2026 Image Based Program, Focus Room
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'Slideshow' | First Episode | 'War Memoirs of Kaveh Kazemi', Dastan:Outside [Focus Room 05]

A solo presentation of works by Kaveh Kazemi at Focus Room 05, as part of Dastan:Outside projects.

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Dastan:Outside Projects, will open "Slideshow", Episode 1, at Focus Room this Friday, 18 September 2026. With every episode, "Slideshow" projects photographs of a particular photographer on the three walls of the room with a narration by the photographer in focus. "Slideshow" is a project by Alborz Kazemi.

"Slideshow" will open with works of famed photojournalist Kaveh Kazemi. Visitors will be able to see a selection of his Iran-Iraq War photographs projected on the three walls of the gallery along with his account of every frame in this selection.

Photographs of Kaveh Kazemi from the Iranian and other revolutionary events are available in the Getty Images website. The coverage of early hostilities in Syria (2012), the fall of Mosul (autumn 2016), and his presence among the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC) in June 2017 are among his reports. His photographs have also been collected in many books, among them "In the Land of Zoroastrian" (Tehran, Nazar Publishing, 2025), "Nuns" (Tehran, Nazar Publishing, 2023), "The Return of Taliban" (Tehran, Nazar Publishing, 2021), "The Persian Gulf: Scenes of Never-ending Conflict" (Tehran, Nazar Publishing, 2020), "My Days In Troubled Ireland" (Tehran, Nazar Publishing, 2019), "Revolutionaries: The First Decade" (Tehran, Nazar Publishing, 2017).

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