Dastan Gallery
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • Home
  • Artists
  • Exhibitions
  • News
  • Publications
  • Video
  • About
  • Contact
  • Viewing Room
Menu

"Photo Riahi" | A Project by Bahman Kiarostami: Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE

Past exhibition
5 - 17 November 2017 Dastan:Outside
  • Overview
  • Works
  • Installation Views
  • Publications
  • Press release
Overview
'Photo Riahi' | A Project by Bahman Kiarostami, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE

Pop-Up Exhibition of a Project by Bahman Kiarostami at Warehouse 46, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE

Share
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • Email
Download Press Release
Works
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
Installation Views
  • Riahi Alserkal Installation 04 1
  • Riahi Alserkal Installation 01 1
  • Riahi Alserkal Installation 03 1
  • Riahi Alserkal Installation 07 1
  • Riahi Alserkal Installation 02 1
  • Riahi Alserkal Installation 05 1
  • Riahi Alserkal Installation 06 1
Publications
  • Golshahr

    Golshahr

    Bahman Kiarostami, 2018
    Softback 144 pages
    Publisher: Nazar Publications
    ISBN: 9786001522598
    Dimensions: 220x230x10mm
    Read more
  • Photo Riahi

    Photo Riahi

    Bahman Kiarostami, 2017
    Softback 590 pages
    Publisher: Dastan
    ISBN: 9789090303970
    Dimensions: 220x230x40mm
    Read more
Press release

Dastan is pleased to announce the pop-up exhibition, “Photo Riahi”, a project by Bahman Kiarostami at Warehouse 46, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE. The project, consisting of a book launch and an exhibition of photographs from “Photo Riahi” collection, will be open for public viewing from November 5 through November 17, 2017. This is the second presentation of “Photo Riahi”. The project was previously launched at Dastan’s Basement in June 2017.

Bahman Kiarostami (b. 1978, Tehran, Iran) is a documentary film director who has spent some of the last five years building a house in the mountain village of Barg Jahan. Much of the actual building was done by a team of Afghan men led by Rahman Atai, who announced one day that he was leaving work early for a photoshoot. Kiarostami joined him and met a team of Afghan brothers on motorbikes who create portraits of workmen photoshopped against surreal landscapes. When the brothers skipped town, Atai noted that they weren’t the best team around. In terms of portrait quality and design, Photo Riahi in Lavasan has been the top choice for the past two decades.

This pop-up exhibition features works from the Photo Riahi archive and accompanies a book of the same name. Kiarostami interviewed Mohammed Khazrai, the grandson of the founder, and his mother, Mrs Riahi, who fell in love with photography as a girl and who persuaded her husband and son to join her in the business. Her gentle use of color and the early magic of Photoshop drew a flood of customers to their studio.

Download Press Release

Related artist

  • Bahman Kiarostami

    Bahman Kiarostami

Back to exhibitions
Manage cookies
Copyright © 2025 Dastan Gallery
Sign Up to Dastan's Mailing List
Facebook, opens in a new tab.
Instagram, opens in a new tab.
Join the mailing list
Send an email

This website uses cookies
This site uses cookies to help make it more useful to you. Please contact us to find out more about our Cookie Policy.

Manage cookies
Accept

Cookie preferences

Check the boxes for the cookie categories you allow our site to use

Cookie options
Required for the website to function and cannot be disabled.
Improve your experience on the website by storing choices you make about how it should function.
Allow us to collect anonymous usage data in order to improve the experience on our website.
Allow us to identify our visitors so that we can offer personalised, targeted marketing.
Save preferences