I look at your photographs that are published in your book… Then, I look at a photograph of you on the news and my feel my bitter tears running down on my face. Rest in peace and close your eyes, as you were, for long, an open eye to your people.
Photograph of Baḥman Jalali, Iranian documentary and art photographer
By Taḥmineh Monzavi
Layout: Farḥād Fozooni
Persian text from a ghazal by Sʿadī.
gham-e zamāneh khoram yā ferāgh-e yār kesham/ [be ṭāghatī ke nadāram kodām bār kesham]
[~ Shall I mourn the sorrow of this world or the loss of my beloved / with the strength that I do not have, which one shall I endure?]