Artist of the Month
Mohsen Namjoo
One of the most exciting musical incidents of our era, Mohsen Namjoo has truly advanced the pace of evolution of Iranian popular music. His brave and courageous foray into uncharted territory takes you boldly with him as if he has just grabbed your hand in his full speed reckless stride and hurries you along, with him into the darkness and the unknown. And you don’t mind at all!
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Filmmakers
"My primary focus as a filmmaker is an exploration of physical landscape as it relates to political and economic histories, social expression, music, and personal events. My work explores the idea of place as both a location of and an impetus towards social action and manifestations of identity. In the translation of reality to representation, I hope to elicit a space of possibility and change.”
Musicians
One of the most exciting musical incidents of our era, Mohsen Namjoo has truly advanced the pace of evolution of Iranian popular music. His brave and courageous foray into uncharted territory takes you boldly with him as if he has just grabbed your hand in his full speed reckless stride and hurries you along, with him into the darkness and the unknown. And you don’t mind at all!
Other Artists
Painters
“Painting for me is the best and only way to express my feelings about my life and environment. I see all people caught within a frame of different laws of life - inconvenient laws. As an optimistic person I’m convinced that the frame has some kind of exit. This I want to express with and through my art. For me nature has always been a good teacher, wherefore my art is strongly attached to it. In my paintings I show the world as I see it. I admire art as a world between fantasy and bitter truth.”
Writers
Howard Lee grew up in Kenya before moving to the UK to study. He first met his Iranian wife in London University, where he began a lifelong fascination with Iran. Lee wrote and illustrated the children’s book “Jamshid and the Lost Mountain of Light” after a visit to Persepolis, in Iran. He was inspired by the sight of his son Daniel gazing through the same windows as the biblical Daniel may have looked through, some 2500 years ago. The novel is set in the reign of Darius the Great, and is part historical fiction, part fantasy.
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