sarmadmagazine:

Of course, that’s what we thought also, the first time we saw this photo. But no, it’s no photoshop, and it’s not one photo pinned on top of another one either! This NYC landscape has a nice little story.


Sylvain-Emmanuel Prieur is a 35 year old photographer, he lives in Paris, and this is what he told us about this particular photo:





This photo i took in February 2010, during my visit to NYC.

Two days before, I was stuck in Miami since the flights to NY were all cancelled because of snowstorms. So when I got to NY I only had one single day before going back to France, almost nothing!

On my way to JFK airport, I spent a couple of hours alongside highways and roads taking photographs (trying to take advantage of my last hours in the city).

Being in the middle pf nowhere, on foot, was interesting, it was cold and very windy, I took a few photos of some pieces of paper that were flying around in the wind, I guess i was just lucky that this one clearly revealed a face on it.

That was the only face my eyes caught in that area.





Sylvian uses film, and has had numerous publications and exhibitions. You can see his work on his

flickr

or his personal website

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sarmadmagazine:

That’s Iran. At first sight, we thought it was an old photo, one of those black and white photographs taken before or during the revolution, some 30 years back.




Farhad Yassavoli, a 25 year old Iranian photographer, took this in University of Tehran, while he was studying painting there.




Students playing football, a very practical and highly technical type of football which has always been really popular in Iran because the ball is a little smaller than usual, and the goals are much smaller than real goals, and so you don’t need much space or many people to be able to play, you can play in the street, in the university, on asphalt.




For anyone who grew up in Iran, this photo means tons of memories, especially for those who actually studied in University of Tehran.




Look at Farhad’s work on his

flickr

acornsquash:

plagiarismisnecessary:

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Don’t work for free. 

genericarchitecture:

This guide has been produced by the Carrot Workers‘ Collective in London.

It attempts to explore and debunk some commonly held myths around creative careers and provide some survival tools for those cur- rently working in the creative sector.

This guide asks: is unpaid interning essential for a job in the creative sector? Does interning and free labour automatically lead to paid work? Do those who work in the creative industry actually do creative work? Why do we often think that cultural work isn‘t ‘real work‘, and therefore that cultural workers don‘t deserve the same rights as everyone else?

The contents of the guide are based on real life experiences of cultural workers in London who tell it like it really is, sharing the fears and desires that motivate their work, their experiences of disappointment and survival, and also, importantly, suggesting how we could organise our work otherwise.

(click here to download the guide)

[see https://carrotworkers.wordpress.com]

THIS IS IMPORTANT.  just had a difficult and roundabout conversation about it at the speakeasy today.

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sarmadmagazine:

Summer 2011/ Armenia


After leaving that crazy tunnel behind, I was stunned by the scenery. However I couldn’t resist looking back at the tunnel…

A week or two before photographing this picture, I had graduated.





Khashayar Zand is a 25-year-old Iranian photographer based in Armenia.



Khashayar’s work is very very intimate, probably because he photographs things that matter to him: his motherland, his family, his girlfriend, or the city he lives in, Yerevan.



He mainly works with film (35mm and medium format).



Make sure to check his work:

website


flickr




Khashayar is the very first photographer featured on SarMad.

Let’s wish both Khashayar and SarMad all the very best!