Wednesday 24 October 2012

Review of Mitra Tabrizian: Another Country at Wapping Project Bankside


24/10/12
Mitra Tabrizian: Another Country
Wapping Project Bankside
21 September – 2 November 2012

Born in Tehran, the photographer and film-maker Mitra Tabrizian has lived in London since 1977. As such, she is one of the nearly 3 million individuals making up the Iranian diaspora worldwide. It is perhaps not surprising then to find that her work deals primarily with the themes of displacement and exile, and that her most recent series, Another Country (2010), currently on show at Wapping Project Bankside, focuses on the politics of everyday life for Muslim communities in the UK. 




To read the rest of this review, please go to: http://www.photomonitor.co.uk/2012/10/another-country-2/

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