Crisis photographers’ narration of important events in the world in “From the Ashes” – Mehr news agency Iran and world’s news
According to the Mehr News Agency, citing the public relations of the Documentary Network, the series “Among the Ashes” directed by Saeed Faraji is the narration of 6 crisis photographers about 6 important world events, which will be aired tonight, Monday, November 9, at 9:00 PM on the Sima Documentary Network.
Saeed Faraji, the director of the documentary “From the Ashes”, said about the subject of this documentary: This documentary series is about the experience of young Iranian photographers from crises outside our country. The 33-day war, the famine crisis in Somalia, Syria, Iraq, developments in Afghanistan, Myanmar border conflicts are 6 subjects that have been investigated in this collection. In each episode, a photographer of the Iranian crisis who saw and photographed the events closely, tells his memories of it.
He explained by introducing the photographers present in this collection: Hossein Velayati, Hossein Morsadi, Ali Khara, Vahid Faraji, Behnam Sahavi and myself are 6 photographers who have been interviewed in this collection. Vahid Faraji talks about the 33-day war. Behnam Sahavi talks about Myanmar refugees in Bangladesh and Hossein Velayati and Ali Khara They define an operation in Iraq, and Hossein Morsadi also defines a liberation operation noble and narrates Al-Zahra in Syria.
Saeed Faraji said about the first part of the documentary “From the Ashes”: The first part of this series is about the famine crisis in Somalia, which is my own experience of being present in this event and I am talking about it.
Referring to his idea of making this documentary, he said: I always think about how much the audience of the photos pay attention to the photographers. The audience always pays attention to the subject of that photo, while they don’t know who the photographer is and under what conditions he took this photo? I liked to record the efforts of photographers to take pictures of different crises. For this reason, I decided to create the “Through the Ashes” collection.
In the end, this director explained about the narrative form of “From the Ashes”: In addition to interviews with photographers, we also have archival images. Of course, by archival images I do not mean that we have received something from somewhere, but rather images that our collection has already produced of those events. For example, I worked in 15-16 countries and participated in 4 wars. Some of the pictures are the result of my own work from these trips. We have also displayed the pictures of the photographers themselves from that crisis. Each episode of this collection is about 40 minutes.
The director and producer of this collection is Saeed Faraji, and among its other factors, we can mention the photographer of the interviews: Seyed Mostafa Seyed Al-Hosseini, the editor: Hamid Mashaikhi, and the production images: Saeed Faraji. “From Ashes” is broadcasted on Mondays at 21:00 on Documentary Network and is repeated the next day at 9:00.