
(Raffaella Guidobono prefazione da Andrea Annessi Mecci, Iran, Edizioni Gribaudo) [qui]
In a period of conflict, in which the world tends to split up, "human portraits" can help to realize, that human beings are all equal, and that the eyes of an iranian farmer have the same dignity as the eyes of a sharecropper in North Carolina or a professor of mathematics in Pisa. Human portraits become a sort of "white weapon" against ethnic and territorial divisions, against wars and any classification of "rich and poor world". They become a touchstone between cultures and countries. The portrayed eyes do not need traslators, balances, gross domestic product, nor conflicts, religions or race. They are just human eyes of human beings making up the real nature of humanity and, at the same time, representing the differences laying behind them.
(Raffaella Guidobono prefazione da Andrea Annessi Mecci, Iran, Edizioni Gribaudo) [qui]