Loss of identity

Photography

by Sadegh Tirafkan
19-Dec-2007
 

Based on statistics there are 9 million youth and young adults between the ages of 16-24 in Iran. This made me think: How can we protect them from the attack of some destructive cultures? Day by day, the budget spent on educational and cultural programs are decreasing while the numbers of meaningless and useless websites and Satellite TV shows are increasing. This crisis is not limited to the younger generation in Iran. This is a global crisis. Media is focusing on shows that have no actual value and are investing heavily in reality shows to keep viewers entertained. The large corporations are putting all their efforts toward commercialization and they encourage superficiality. Are we going to find a way to guide this young generation to their true culture and identity?

This project and the series "Whispers of the East " are going to be exhibited from Dec 29, 2007 till Jan 18,2008, Silk Road Gallery in Tehran. -- December, 2007, Tehran-Iran (tirafkan.com)

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He's been a cheater all the

by Hamid (not verified) on

He's been a cheater all the time, calling himself an artist and copying Shirin Neshat's work, now continuing with this cut and paste garbage.


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This is not photography its photoshop

by RealPhotos please (not verified) on

another digi n00b photo haxster who has never even used film but can copy paste with layers in photoshop. lameee!!!. REAL PHOTOGRAPHERS USE FILM!(and dont take lame photos and photohax them)


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What is all this?

by Chert o Pert (not verified) on

Why are we shifting the discussion from loss of our youth's culture to all "copy cats"?
Clearly the loss of identity has led to the loss of an intellectual discussion of the issue at hand!!!


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Let's spare the Copy Cat Neck

by Limit to Acknolwedgement (not verified) on

Stop the beheading of copy cat at once!


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You Copy Cat Beware!

by Acknowledgement (not verified) on

Beware! property! Beware!


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Warning to all copy cats

by Acknowledgement (not verified) on

...If you don't acknolwedge for the usage of other people's orginial work with due respect and credit...first your hands will be blown away in the explusion ...and then perhaps if persisted ... then explosion may occur right into one's face... etc., etc.

And know that everything will be balanced out in the debtors and creditors in the accounting balance sheet of "Acknolwedgement" in the long run...to the last decimal point and cents...rials ...


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this is where I started,

by Seagull (not verified) on

this is where I started, this should help lay the foundation of ones identity!

"My name is Abdul-Baha, my identity is Abdul-Baha, my qualification is Abdul-Baha, my reality is Abdul-Baha, my praise is Abdul-Baha, Thraldom to the Blessed Perfection is my glorious refulgent diadem; and servitude to all the human race is my perpetual religion. Through the bounty and favor of the Blessed Perfection, Abdul-Baha is the Ensign of the Most-Great-Peace, which is waving from the Supreme Apex; and through the gift of the Greatest Name, he is the Lamp of Universal Salvation, which is shining with the light of the love of God. The Herald of the Kingdom is he, so that he may awaken the people of the East and of the West. The Voice of Friendship, Uprightness, Truth and Reconciliation is he, so as to cause acceleration throughout all regions. No name, no title, no mention, no commendation hath he nor will ever have except Abdul-Baha. This is my longing. This is my supreme apex. This is my greatest yearning. This is my eternal life. This is my everlasting glory! Express ye the same thing which is issued from my pen. This is the duty of all. Consequently the friends of God must assist and help Abdul-Baha in the adoration of the True One; in the servitude to the human race; in the well-being of the human world and in divine love and kindness.

O ye friends of God! Through the Appearance of the Blessed Perfection the theories are abrogated and the facts established. The time of superficiality is  431  gone by and the cycle of reality hath appeared. One must become the incarnation of Servitude, the personification of Love, the embodiment of Spirituality and the mirror of Mercy.

The believers must become the cause of life; deliver the people from heedlessness, call the souls to the perfection of humanity, beckon nations to unity and agreement, destroy the foundations of foreignness, make everyone as friends and associates, treat the negligent souls as their own children, and train and educate them with the utmost love -- so that the ignorant become wise, the blind become endowed with light, and the deaf be given hearing".

(Abdu'l-Baha, Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha v2, p. 430)


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"true culture"

by anon (not verified) on

Culture is not static, nor is identity. Suggesting that this new generation is a bunch of passive consumers is really unfair. Our media hinges on interactivity. Many of us are active participants in it.

We're making our own culture, and we're looking to you for encouragement, not judgment. It's unrealistic to expect us to pay attention to how you want to shape or guide us when it's clear you don't respect or understand us.

We're not lost. We're evolving.


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Belonging...

by Man (not verified) on

Identity
.
Man Is
At least
A ten thousand year old civilized living being
Yet people
Out of ignorance
Treat some one
Who has lived
More than & beyond
Hundred years
With great
Curiosity
My friends...
My advise to you is
Learn to live savage and wild and free
So you can live well beyond ten thousand years
Easy and without a problem
Just to raise
Even more
Curiosity
.
A. Hassan Danesh
Copyright ©2007 A. HassanDanesh


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Honor my hand shake

by Keeerrrrr (not verified) on

for if you don't and abuse the contract as you see I have never hand shaken with you before and ever!