Amir Farshad 's Photoblog
Hand to Mouth
Posted by Amir Farshad Ebrahimi (Washington, United States) on 5 June 2006 in Art & Design.
Like many projects 'Hand to Mouth' came about by chance. As I was driving home late one evening in the UK, I heard a programme on Radio 4, 'Wild Europe', about how the lives of the travelling shepherds are affected by bears and wolves in the Romanian Carpathian Mountains. These few minutes were enough to inspire me to visit the shepherds and their wild landscape.
In June 2003, I arrived in Bucharest and took the twelve hour overnight train to Sighetu Marmatiei, the market town of the Maramures region, close to the Ukrainian border. When I awoke on the train in the early morning, we were travelling through a landscape of conical haystacks, where people were already at work scything before the heat of the day set in.
Much of this project is a kind of ‘street’ photography relying on chance encounters. I would get up in the morning with no agenda and walk all day, sometimes from village to village along dirt roads, other times following cart tracks and footpaths used by local people through orchards and meadows. I would photograph the people I met on the way, people who interested me for some reason — peasant farmers working the fields, women walking along knitting in the street. I was able to meet shepherds and spend time at the sheepfolds as they milked the sheep and made cheese for the villages. Unintentionally, the fabrics and details of their clothing became as important in the photographs as the actual activity.
My name is Amir Farshad Ebrahimi.I was born in Golhak,Tehran.
I am a freelance broadcast journalist and a blogger and Photographer ! .
I have written many articles and blog posts related to Iranian politics. I have been working with an freelance photojournalist for Agency France-Presse(AFP) , Reuters News Agancy ( Thomson Reuters) and Croatian News Agency(HINA) since 2003.
This Photoblog on People , Culture , Politics and Human Rights news is designed to inspire young Iranians.
I hope to one day return to my homeland, Iran
