Iran: after the revolution
30Jan09 – 18:32 The celebrated photographer and Pulitzer prize-winner Kaveh Golestan was one of the great defenders of free speech in Iran. He refle...
30Jan09 – 18:32 The celebrated photographer and Pulitzer prize-winner Kaveh Golestan was one of the great defenders of free speech in Iran. He reflects in this essay, first published in 1994, on the fallout of the revolutionMy childhood was spent among the wheatfields outside Tehran. My father built a solitary house, far away from the nearest neighbour. I was on my own. Life was the blue sky and the sound of crickets. Then came a television set, and with it, the rest of the world.My father’s un