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Payram: A Printer in Exile

The Iranian photographer and printer, a loyal friend to Josef Koudelka, recounts for Blind his journey in the company of some of photography’s greats and his forced departure from his native land.

“My exile was the beginning of everything else.” Payram tells his story in a slow, soft voice, inflected with a lilting Persian accent. It’s the story of a twenty-four-year-old who fled Tehran in 1983 during the Islamic revolution, becoming a photog...

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