Other artists in the book have captured the horrors of the Iran-Iraq war or the aftermath of the earthquake in 2003. Some focus on the landscape, the dying tradition of bathhouses, or recreations of Goya’s paintings in modern, domestic settings. Each section contains a brief introduction by the photographer, which provides insight into the process behind the images and is essential for the reader unfamiliar with Iranian culture.
     “Freedom may be a large idea with a long history,” Professor Homi Bhabha of Harvard University writes in the book’s forward, “but the diverse photographic practices represented in Iranian Photography Now remind us that freedom can also be lost or gained in an acte gratuit. If we don’t take a shot at liberty and beauty, we will never know what we have missed. Just like a photograph.”