Ali Akbar Shirjian, Iran

Open Ending of a Long Story

Societies have dreams and sometimes these dreams become so serious that they are a rival for personal dreams. Many in Iran have neglected their personal dream for the national dream. The result of this conscious choice raises important questions: will dreams end in the freedom period? In other words, do the dreams end when they achieve their intended result, or do they not renew and look for another way? I think so. But, here, another question that I want to bring forth for discussion: how do these successive births and deaths of social dreams evolve with each other and how do they differ? In other words, what causes the birth and death of national dreams? And, what does each birth owe to prior death? Or, in principle, are the dreams obliged to develop based on prior dreams?

The Iran revolution is about transition. Today, after thirty years of its inception the Iran revolution (the social dream) has conceived other dreams.

For nearly a century, Iran is trying to have a modern society structured on their culture and beliefs, but what is the destination of this one hundred year old social dream road?

This photo collection looks at the current Iranian society from an idealistic viewpoint. The results are critical but its method is completely moral; because the common sense of having the same fate is the only power that has pushed it forward.