Statue of Black Protester Replaced UK Slave Trader

reporter 1222 — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 11:07:30 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – An artist has erected a statue of a Black Lives Matter protester atop the plinth in the English city of Bristol once occupied by the toppled statue of a slave trader.

Marc Quinn created the likeness of Jen Reid, a protester photographed standing on the plinth after demonstrators pulled down the statue of Edward Colston and dumped it in Bristol’s harbor on June 7.

The statue, titled “A Surge of Power (Jen Reid)” was erected before dawn on Wednesday without approval from city officials, AP reported.

Colston was a 17th-century trader who made a fortune transporting enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas. His money funded schools and charities in Bristol, 120 miles (195 kilometers) southwest of London.

The toppling of his statue is part of a worldwide reckoning with racism and slavery sparked by the death of a Black American man, George Floyd, at the hands of police in Minneapolis, in May.

Quinn, one of Britain’s best-known sculptors, said Reid had “created the sculpture when she stood on the plinth and raised her arm in the air. Now we’re crystallizing it.”

Reid told The Guardian newspaper that the new black protester statue was “incredible” and would help “continue the conversation.”

City authorities fished the Colston statue out of the harbor and say it will be placed in a museum, along with placards from the Black Lives Matter demonstration.

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Iranian photographers honored at Bristol Photography Festival

reporter 1222 — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 10:47:00 +0000

The Iranian photographers participating at the Bristol Festival of Photography in Britain were honored in various parts of the event.

The Iranian photographers participating at the Bristol Festival of Photography in Britain, including the photographers from at the Focus Photo Club (a representative of FIAP in Iran), were honored in various parts of the festival.

Eyes photo collection by Negar Aqaalitari won the Bronze medal of FIAP and Crossing photo collection by Ehsan Nikfarjam and Iron Seller photo collection by Amirali Navadeh-shahla were given the Honorable Mention.

The festival was organized under the supervision of the Fédération Internationale de l’Art Photographique (FIAP), and the American Photography Society of America (PSA) in four sections on free color, free monochrome, travel, and nature issues.

Works by members of the Focus Photo Club including Ehsan Nikfarjam, Amirali Navadeh-shahla, Kaveh Manafzadeh, Shirzad Rostamdoost, Taghi (Farzad) Hamidimanesh, Saeed Abdollahi, Siamak Jafari, Shahriar Dabiri, Abdolmaeed Maroufi, Mohammad Hemmati, Maryam Hasani Barchlouie, Mehdi Zabol Abbasi, Negar Aghaalitari, Younes Hemmatinia, Akram Niksefat Zendehdel, Evin Abbasi, Jamaloddin Teymoori, Chia Hassankhali, Dariush Ghannbarnasab Behbahani, Saeed Arabzadeh, Seyyed Shahaboddin Montazeri, Mohammadali Shamsoddin, Mehdi Aghighi and Navid Shayesteh were accepted.

Fédération Internationale de l’Art Photographique, or FIAP is an international organization of national associations of photography. More than 85 national associations are members, comprising nearly one million individual photographers. FIAP was founded by M. Van de Wijer of Belgium in 1946.

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