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PublisherpowerHouse Books
ISBN-101576875547
ISBN-139781576875544
eBay Product ID (ePID)109255390
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Book TitleBlack Crack in Iran
Number of Pages146 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2011
TopicPhotojournalism, Disease & Health Issues, Middle East / General
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, Photography, History
AuthorSteffen Gassel, Aslon Arfa
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight25.5 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal362.29095525022
SynopsisCreating an accurate picture of daily life in Iran is a difficult endeavor. Due to strict religious and moral codes, even photographing a woman inside her home without a scarf covering her head is all but impossible. Evidence of the censure of media in Iran has always been visible to Western nations, and has been brought to the forefront in the wake of the recent elections held there. But, Tehran has a drug problem. On the streets, in back alleys, and in small, crumbling, low-cost apartments, Iranian crack addicts are finding their fix in steadily rising numbers. The crack-a term used to describe many types of crystallized narcotics-currently flooding the streets of Tehran is different from that found in the West in a significant way: the "black crack" in Iran is made from heroin, not cocaine. Intent on documenting the plight of these masses of addicts, Aslon Arfa struck out into the underbelly of modern Tehran, camera in tow. The results of his mission, compiled here in Black Crack in Iran, are devastating images of men and women in the midst of a downfall. Some, including a young man with glazed eyes and infected burns stretching across his torso, are closer to the bottom than others. Further complicating the documentation of the epidemic are the shame of addiction, the misunderstanding and disapproval of drug use by outsiders, and the lack of trust from suffering people whose sickness is also a crime punishable by death. Yet, after months spent in the trenches, Arfa has succeeded in bringing the closed-door activities of Iran's most unseemly citizens to light in Black Crack in Iran., Tehran has a drug problem: Iranian crack addicts are finding their fix in steadily rising numbers. But the 'black crack' in Iran is made from heroin, not cocaine. With neighbouring Afghanistan and Pakistan still ranking as world leaders in the production of poppies and their derivatives, the flow of drugs into Iran has been hard to stem. Intent on documenting the plight of these addicts, Aslon Arfa struck out into the underbelly of modern Tehran, camera in tow, and compiled some devastating images. The results are raw and humanising, offering hope through exposure., Creating an accurate picture of daily life in Iran is a difficult endeavor. Due to strict religious and moral codes, even photographing a woman inside her home without a scarf covering her head is all but impossible. Evidence of the censure of media in Iran has always been visible to Western nations, and has been brought to the forefront in the wake of the recent elections held there. But, Tehran has a drug problem. On the streets, in back alleys, and in small, crumbling, low-cost apartments, Iranian crack addicts are finding their fix in steadily rising numbers. The crack--a term used to describe many types of crystallized narcotics--currently flooding the streets of Tehran is different from that found in the West in a significant way: the "black crack" in Iran is made from heroin, not cocaine. Intent on documenting the plight of these masses of addicts, Aslon Arfa struck out into the underbelly of modern Tehran, camera in tow. The results of his mission, compiled here in Black Crack in Iran , are devastating images of men and women in the midst of a downfall. Some, including a young man with glazed eyes and infected burns stretching across his torso, are closer to the bottom than others. Further complicating the documentation of the epidemic are the shame of addiction, the misunderstanding and disapproval of drug use by outsiders, and the lack of trust from suffering people whose sickness is also a crime punishable by death. Yet, after months spent in the trenches, Arfa has succeeded in bringing the closed-door activities of Iran's most unseemly citizens to light in Black Crack in Iran ., A rare and uncensored look at drug addiction in Tehran, told through vivid, intimate photographs which uncover a hidden section of the already insulated Iranian society.
LC Classification NumberHV5840.I7
