Ako Salemi
Iran No Filter #02

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Ako Salemi - Iran No Filter #02

Synopsis

Smartphones and social networks have given rise to a new generation of photographers in Iran, who are showing us a daily life that is usually inaccessible to outsiders. Ten of them tell us about the young people they immortalise and to whom they belong. Young people trying to find their place in a paradoxical society, between coercive tradition and liberating Western influence.

In this episode, Ako Salemi explains how his phone enables him to continue to be the press photographer he was and to capture the daily life on the streets of Iran without being hassled by the police.

What you will find in this film

Iranian society in the throes of change • Iranian youth seen from the inside • a new generation in search of independence • the power of social networks • Western culture as an outlet

With my phone, I was no longer perceived as a photographer. I took photos like anyone else. But my perspective was still the photographer's one. I had found a trick.
The people I photograph are the same age as me. We are a generation born after the Revolution. We are different from previous generations.

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