When I Saw the Sun
and the Moon at the Same Time
Tina Farifteh
Backer+Rueb Hall – Breda
When I Saw the Sun and the Moon at the Same Time is a 24-hour journey along the Seedyk (sea dyke) in Friesland in 24 minutes. Tina Farifteh developed the installation specially for BredaPhoto.
It is part of Tina in Sexbierum, a transmedia project about displacement, detachment and the simultaneous desire for a home and inability to feel at home in a society that continuously rejects you.
Forhanna supported Tina with her project that has been produced by the storytelling production agency Prospektor.
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Webinar Tina Farifteh
Claire Hoogakker interviewt Tina Farifteh
16 oktober 2024
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Tina Farifteh is a visual artist who came to the Netherlands from Tehran at the age of thirteen. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 2021 with her project The Flood, which won several prizes, including the Royal Academy Bachelor Award.
Her documentary Kitten or Refugee? was awarded the first prize in the storytelling category at the Zilveren Camera awards in 2024.
Farifteh moved to Sexbierum because she could no longer find affordable housing in Amsterdam. Her friends returned to their hometowns: Voorburg, Sint-Michielsgestel and Krimpen aan de Lek but she could not go back to Tehran.
‘If your way back home is cut off, you might as well go to a random place with a nice name and a beautiful view.’
Prüst presents Edit your story
Forhanna had a successful evening at Pakhuis de Zwijger on June 26. Marc Prüst presented his new booklet, emphasizing the importance of editing photos into a series to tell a story, with a focus on consistency, coherent style, and narrative continuity. This book offers a method for editing photo series and identifies eleven different storytelling formats.
Edit your story is now available to everyone.
Bahram Sadeghi interviewed Jacqueline Dersjant, who practices memorial photography in a unique way. Journalist Irene van der Linde, who traveled through Europe with Nicole Segers, clearly explained how she maintains a narrative line and structure in her creations.
Curator Daria Tuminas discussed the power of storytelling and how to approach it differently than in books. Teun van der Heijden, the renowned designer, guided the audience through his method of evaluating projects and turning them into inspiring books.
You can buy the booklet here and watch the program in Pakhuis de Zwijger.
Visual Story webinar #16
‘The Book Of Veles’
In edition 16 we discuss ‘The Book Of Veles’ by Jonas Bendiksen, and how this photographer tackled the issue of ‘fake news’ by creating his version of the story he found in the town of Veles.
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Forhanna was founded by Dutch documentary photographer Willem Poelstra.
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