Document: Iranian-Americans in Los Angeles

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Document: Iranian-Americans in Los Angeles
Submitted by Saedinia on Tue, 05/04/2010 - 10:08pm
Event Date: 
06/06/2010 - 11:06pm - 08/22/2010 - 11:06pm
Event location
City or Town: 
Los Angeles
State or Province: 
CA

Document: Iranian-Americans in Los Angeles
June 6, 2010 to August 22, 2010


From October 2009 through January 2010, four documentary photographers—Farhad Parsa, Arash Saedinia, Parisa Taghizadeh, and Ramin Talaie—focused their lenses on second-generation Iranian-Americans of Los Angeles, the world’s largest population of expatriate Iranians. This Galleria exhibition offers a selection of engaging images by each of these photographers considering the everyday lives of their subjects. It also addresses the processes of documentation and how they relate to the photographers' understandings of their own hyphenated Iranian identities.

See intriguing photographs capturing the varied lives and interests of LA’s Iranian American community—from toddlers at play to an acupuncturist in the office of her Los Feliz practice—including a few recognizable figures such as public intellectual Reza Aslan and comedian Maz Jobrani.