Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Visual Foreign Correspondents presents Sharam Entekhabi from Iran

In Iran Haji Firouz is a clownesque character in blackface, traditionally heralding the Persian New Year: Nowruz. With song and dance he spreads good cheer and inaugurates the festive season. Set within a busy shopping street in West-Berlin, Entekhabi enacts his own version of Haji Fairuz. However, his continuous efforts and increasingly exaggerated gestures to attract attention and become included within a...
http://www.visualcorrespondents.com/
http://www.entekhabi.org/

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