Walking through Lands: Gohar Dashti in conversation with Mary Pelletier

Gohar Dashti’s nuanced approach to photographing the legacy of war in her home country Iran has cemented her position within the medium’s history. Interpreting her subject not as a documentary photographer but as a conceptual artist, Dashti’s highly stylized, poetic observations open up conversations relating to home, displacement, war and personal experience. Five bodies of Dashti’s work will be brought together at The Photographers’ Gallery Print Sales room for her first UK solo presentation Across the Land and Sea. Hear Gohar Dashti talk to curator Mary Pelletier about how nature remains a constant source of connection with her homeland. ‘The limitless reach of nature and landscapes – that reach across cultural and political divisions –as well as the ways in which immigrants inevitably search out and reconstruct familiar topographies in a foreign land, together tell a story familiar to all humans.’

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