テート・ギャラリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (テート・ギャラリーInstagram)「#ArtWords: Documentary Photography refers to a style of photography that provides a straightforward and accurate representation of people, places, objects and events. The medium has been a vital way of bearing witness to world events, and artists using their camera as a tool for social change and shedding light on injustice, inequality and marginalised groups. This selection of photographs is from Kaveh Golestan's 'Prostitute Series' 1975–7. Golestan met, built rapport with and photographed his subjects in the Citadel of Shahr-e No (New City), the red light district in Tehran, Iran. The district employed about 1,500 women. Golestan always took notes while he worked and wrote that the Citadel: 'confines some of Tehran’s prostitutes within its walls, like a detention center with a tight beehive of tiny cells. The lives of the residents have plummeted to the lowest depths of human existence.' As the 1979 Islamic revolution grew momentum, mobs attacked and set fire to the Citadel. While some were imprisoned, executed or 'reformed', most of the women are believed to have escaped, although there was no official investigation or record of casualties. The Citadel site was demolished and in its place a park was built. Golestan died aged 52 in a minefield in northern Iraq in 2003 while working as a cameraman with the BBC. His colleague, the photojournalist Reza Deghait, said 'he was driven by a social conscience and he always found a way to express it in his photography'. 📷 Kaveh Golestan, Untitled, Prostitute Series 1975–7」2月8日 5時50分