Newsha Tavakolian’s “Listen” portrays six female Iranian professional
singers who are subjected to severe restrictions due to the country’s Islamic
laws. The project shows how these women who have become celebrities on their
nation, are really just slaves under the microscope of an oppressive regime.
Each of the portraits of them singing in the dark with eyed closed shows a
person who for a moment, has escaped her turmoil. It’s interesting how great
skill in the US could lead a person to escape their heartache, yet in Iran for
women, all it did was further shackle them to their servitude.
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