Persian Rugs and the Iranian Everyday: Photographer Jalal Sepehr in Yazd
In this series, Sepehr strove to depict a space in between traditional and everyday life in his pictures. To do so, he made use of the rug and architecture as representative of tradition in opposition to the individuals pictured, dealing with the issues of everyday life.
Jalal Sepehr’s Knot series (2011) is comprised of 12 images all including a Persian rug (1m x 70cm) taken in the historic city of Yazd in central Iran. Contrary to initial intentions, some of the images in Knot make use of the historic scenes and examples of architecture found in Yazd.
In this series, Sepehr strove to depict a space in between traditional and everyday life in his pictures. To do so, he made use of the rug and architecture as representative of tradition in opposition to the individuals pictured, dealing with the issues of everyday life.
The colors’ silent whisper
The wool’s palpitation of blood through the knot’s vessels
And the fingers’ sweet souls which are trampled …
-from Ahmad Shamlu’s “To the Scarlet Blossom of a Dress”
See the photographi essay by Jalal Sepehr’s Knot
