This great war photographer exhibits in Toulouse
Maryam AsharfI’m everything you could call a committed photographer. Iranian-British, the photographer was born in Tehran in 1982 during the conflict between Iraq and Iran. She studied at the University of Newport in Wales. A graduate in documentary and social photography, she now works between Paris and London on various societal subjects, always alert to the issues that punctuate our time.
Awarded by the 2021 edition of the Bayeux Calvados Normandy Award for War Correspondents, Maryam Asharafi has been going every year since 2012 as close as possible to armed conflicts. Once a year, or more, she returns to the same places in order to transcribe life into Syria. It is these photos, which bear in particular the portrait of dozens of female combatants who were the subject of the edition of his first book “To rise in the middle of the ruins, to dance between the bullets”. Previewed at the 28th edition of the Bayeux Prize on the occasion of its eponymous exhibition, the Guardianfamous English newspaper, had already given pride of place to his work on many occasions.
An exhibition at the Departmental Council
Lent by the Danielle Mitterrand Foundation to Departmental Council of Haute-Garonnethe Hôtel du Département will host 39 photographs original numbers from the collection entitled “Rise among the ruins, dance between the balls”.
This is already the third meeting that the Departmental Council of Haute-Garonne devotes to the history of the Kurdish people torn between Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. Exhibited on the gates of the Hôtel du Conseil départemental, the 39 works of Maryam Asharafi are to be discovered until May 31.
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