Amir Salehi

Amir Salehi

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Historians have long sought to answer historical questions often by researching written documents. These documents were the only words that narrated the human past for centuries. There have been many generations who have reached regression or backwardness in the absence of a documented and reasoned picture of what actually happened or by reading a falsified and incomplete history. Lack of a documented image of what is happening to man and with man gradually faded with the invention of photography. With the formation of photojournalism and its transcendence of linguistic limitations, photography became the most compelling work of art in the late twentieth century. I believe photographers are the narrators of human history today, and historians will answer the historical questions of the future with photographs.

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