TRACES

In the past 100 years Iranian society has grappled with the idea of modernity, a painful journey, often advances followed by dramatic set backs. In this struggle many intellectuals, poets, artists, writers, cultural and political activists have lost their lives; been forced into exile or intended to be erased from public life and collective memory. Conceptually, biography itself, a modern phenomenon, has only recently been made as a needed historical
documentation.
Traces is a visual biography of those individuals whose lives and work represent the troubled and collective struggle of a nation toward modernity.
Shahram Karimi

Traces poem by Shahram Karimi

Wind erases the traces of our hands
the earth pregnant with an enigma
nothing has happened
darling
here my beloved lays in solitude
and the scent of orange blossoms permeates the air
from the bosoms of mourning women
let know
what land your tired hands unravel
thousands sleep beneath this earth here
which one are you looking for?