The other side of Iran
Tue, 07/28/2009 - 02:58 — Gihane Askar
A Tehran based Iranian artist, Mohammad Javad Jahangir, is presenting a series of photographs at Dadabase.ca depicting what he calls "the invisible crowd." The photos show supporters of Ahmadinejad during the election campaign and after the so-called green revolution.
The artist says the Western media has ignored this crowd and only showed supporters of the opposition in its coverage. Even if the real numbers of supporters of either side remain unclear and the truthful results of the elections remain a secret, it is a fact that the media focused only on the opposition supporters and their protests. Is it simply because they were more successful at using Twitter or because what or who they supported appealed to the West?
