The Ashura Aftermath - Berlin, Germany

After escalation of the Ashura ceremonies in Tehran and other major cities in Iran, causing many injuries and at least 4 death cases, Iranian exile people in Berlin organized a demonstration rally just after the Christmas holidays in the German capital. Despite of cold weather approximately 300 people took part at the rally.






PHOTOS: (c) KAVEH

شسته رفته

Lillian Bassman & Paul Himmel Retrospective

The first retrospective exhibition of the photographers and the pair Lillian Bassman and Paul Himmel had its vernissage in Hamburg's "Haus der Photographie" (House of Photography) on November 26, 2009. Lillian Bassman had been the art director of "Harper's Bazaar" for several years, her photographic work has been published in internationally reknowned magazines such as "Vogue".

The photographer Lillian Bassman during the vernissage event in Hamburg.

A visitor is watching Lillian Bassman's photographic series "Park Avenue, 84th to 90th" from 1975.

Visitors watch an interview with Lillian Bassman and Paul Himmel during the exhibition.

Photos: (c) KAVEH

Window in Hanover

Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Human Conditions at Noorderlicht Photofestival 2009

Groningen, Netherlands where the Noorderlicht Photofestival 2009 was held with the theme of "Human Conditions".

A visitor watchs the Exhibition "Point of No Return", which contains news agency photographs from the Gaza War in December 2008 and January 2009 which where gathered together by the Magnum photographer Stuart Franklin. This Exhibition was followed by a conflict between the Exhibition's curator and the Associated Press (AP), for the AP has forced Noorderlicht to remove Stuart Franklin's editorial. For detailed information please read the original press release from Noorderlicht.

The British photographer Simon Norfolk explains his photography during the finissage.

PHOTOS: (c) KAVEH ROSTAMKHANI

FH Hannover - part I

Hannover, World Trade Center

Expo Plaza, Hanover, Germany

ندای رسا

Endbahnhof

Underground (U-Bahn), Olympia Einkaufszentrum (Olympia Mall), Munich, Germany on Sunday September 13, 2009

PHOTO KAVEH ROSTAMKHANI

Give me beat'

Berlin, Alexanderplatz on August 19, 2009.

Khalil Rostamkhani

The Sky

Is this the blue sky I used to know?

I can't help wonder why:

It is never the azure

It was even in Evin,

Not to mention Mykonos or Costa Brava.

Is it again the cursed blackish wire-netting above,

That dulls the blue so much

To look somewhat gray?

Is there not a single cloud

To be seen today in the entire sky?

Am I in a position

To talk of the 'entire' sky,

While my vista is no wider

Than the hole above?

-- Saveh Prison
30 June 2002

Khalil Rostamkhani

BERLIN - Protest on Ahmadinejads Inauguration

About 1000 people protest on Tuesday August 4, 2009 in Berlin against Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejads Inauguration the previous day.

PHOTOS: (C) KAVEH ROSTAMKHANI

به یاران

به یارانی که هم اکنون پشت دیواری اینچنین بسر می برند


توی قاب خیس این پنجره‌ها
عکسی از جمعه‌ی غم‌گین می‌بینم،
چه سياه ئه به تن‌اش رخت عزا!
تو چشاش ابرای سنگین می‌بینم.

داره از ابر سیا خون می‌چکه!
جمعه‌ها خون جای بارون می‌چکه!


از آهنگ "جمعه" فرهاد

Halt - Stelle / ایست - گاه / Stay-tion

Zoologischer Garten, Berlin, Germany

Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany

تفکر زائد

عزیز "Ralok" تقدیم به

Photo: Kaveh Rostamkhani

Sky over Berlin

Please click on the photo for a higher resolution.

Photo: (c) Kaveh Rostamkhani

Genetic Mix - گور مرغ

The animal on the right should be a "Zebrich", as it's a new genetic comibination of zebra and
ostrich, first seen in the Zoo of Munich, Germany on Friday (3rd June 2009).

Photo: (c) Kaveh Rostamkhani

Berlin against politics of the I.R. Iran

On Sunday (21-June-2009) about 5000 people demonstrated in a 4 hour long rally in Berlin against the supression of Iranian people by the Islamic Republic regime as well against the presidential coup d'état of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. MP Claudia Roth (Bündnis90/Grüne, German Green Party) gave a speech in which she supported the position of the protesters.

"Together for Iran".

Speech of MP Claudia Roth (Bündnis90/Grüne, German Green Party).

Claudia Roth

Photos: Kaveh Rostamkhani / creative commons 3.0