How would it be possible that the sound of a 35mm camera shutter between a crowd and protesters attracts people’s attention? As if the photographer uses a megaphone to say “One,Two, Three, Cheese…“ and some people come out of the atmosphere and stare at the camera.I want to find my suspects like a detective among the revolutionaries of Iran in 1978-1979.The Iranian revolution is the most important event in the Middle East in the last 50 years which has had numerous impacts on the region. This project is about individuals who looked out from among the masses at a crucial moment in history and stared into the lens of a
camera.
The photographer is usually the one that is in control of the image being captured. The photographer chooses the mise-en-scène by choosing his own position. The reactions of the people to the photographer, depend on this position and attitude. In these photographs, the relationship has been reversed because the photographer had been influenced by the crowds and the eyes had turned towards the camera. As if the subject and object had exchanged places. And this reversed relationship was very interesting and instead of the camera turning to the people it was the people who were capturing the image with their gaze.
Photographing through a magnifying loupe was an allegory of extracting photographs of the revolution and bringing them to the present moment. The magnifying loupe acted as a bridge that connected me to the revolutionaries. It seems that their gaze has been waiting for my eyes for decades to be connected to them through several lenses and eyes. They wanted to be recorded in history by a camera, and I was trying to show their desire for immortality
