Exploring the Other: Contemporary Iran

An exhibition of Iason Athanasiadis’s photographs of Iran, “Exploring the Other: Contemporary Iran,” opened on 25 January 2009, at the Craft and Folk Art Museum (co-produced by the Society of Cinema and Arts) in Los Angeles.  “Exploring the Other” offers an alternative narrative of the country famously included in the “Axis of Evil” by George W. Bush.  The exhibition will continue through 29 March 2009.

See, also, “Interview with Iason Athanasiadis: Exploring the Other,” Pars Arts, 23 January 2009.


Iason Athanasiadis is a journalist and photographer, who spent many years in the Middle East.