SWD 38
The Sea monsters and Zahra Kazemi, an Iranian Canadian photojournalist, slain in a prison in Tehran, age 55. Which journalism - repressing autocratic leaders from around the world would you list as metaphors for the sea monsters?
Art: 2019
Media: Ink, pencil, gouache, watercolor, fragment pieces from 2016 linocut portrait of Robert Desnos
Framed: 27.5 in. H x 23.5 W
Description: Born in Shira, Iran in 1949, she had moved to France as an adult and later emigrated to Canada. She became a photojournalist, covering conflict regions. Her work also focused on poverty, oppression and exile. She died after being brutalized in a prison in Tehran on July 19, 2003. She was 55.
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The sea monsters are metaphoric, designed for tolerance education with all ages of viewers, from young children to older children, teens, young adults and adults of all ages.
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As of December 2019, three other journalists are portrayed in Sight-seeing with Dignity artworks: