(NOTICE: Choosing FR also available project text in iranian Farsi language!)

We are Davide Palmisano and Manuela Marchetti and we deal with reportage in humanistic themes. Beyond being a couple in life, we like to work together and share thoughts and emotions while shooting on field, in full freedom, maintaining own personal vision enriched by reciprocal confrontation. Our works have been published in both specialized and online magazines, were exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at various venues and photography festivals both in Italy and abroad and also received mentions and international awards.

We went to Iran in 2015 with the project to document this great country which is about to get out of more than a decade of isolation caused by international sanctions. And from this adventure was born the idea of creating two photo books to show to everybody the awesomeness that this place offered to us.

Now these two books are asking to come to light and be printed, and to do this we need a helping hand.

THE BOOKS

Both photo books have been edited by Paola Riccardi with texts in Italian and Farsi. They are "different twins", each with its own character, but thought to live together: two individual visions but complementary.

Literary texts were cared for by experts Tiziana Ciavardini, anthropologist and Antonello Sacchetti, journalist and writer. Manoocher Deghati, prominent Iranian photojournalist participated in the project by offering a caring and conclusive supervision.

The biographies of all of us are placed at the bottom in the FAQ of the project, but the most important aspect was the tight collaboration to which this self-constituted group has been committed for so many months , and also the development of deep and lasting relationships togetherwith the project.

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THE STORIES

Timeless Persia and SOKUT represent for each of us the first photo book.

The idea came from a strong desire to leave a trace of an Iran that perhaps will not be there anymore. We arrived in Iran in the spring of 2015 shortly before the outbreak of #irandeal through the Lausanne Agreement of June 2015 , from which an important, unstoppable and tumultuous process of change for the life of the Iranians took off.

Travelling through Iran, we realized that there is an ancient beauty that could disappear by overwhelming events. A beauty that we abandoned, mesmerized by this country which is suspended between the past and the present, that we did not just want to describe but to tell through our sensations.

A journey into the "silence" as a reality that speaks, as a place where the language of emotions could be expressed, but also a trip in a “timeless” country, where past, present and future are intertwined.

Timeless Persia

is a photographic story that expresses the contrasts and contradictions of Iran and at the same time a story of a personal journey. The dummy book of Timeless Persia has already been selected with the third prize at PhotoEbook award, organized last year by Emuse publishing house in Italy.

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(Timeless Persia - © davide_palmisano)

SOKUT

Images of SOKUT (title, meaning "silence" in Farsi) penetrate into the soil of intimacy bringing us to collective sense of the sacred. The images are alternated with verses from the famous Iranian women poets Forough Farrokhzad and Simin Behbahani.

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(SOKUT - © manuela_marchetti)

OUR CALL

Help us realize this project because we believe that the ancient and silent beauty of Iran deserves to be shared, beyond the preconceptions and in compliance with the changes imposed by history!

"SOKUT" & "Timeless Persia"