Join us for a talk and presentation of the book Eyewitness by Manoocher Deghati, an internationally renowned documentary photographer of Iranian origins. The book launch will take place on Thursday, 20th of March, 2025 at 17.30.
Eyewitness is a retrospective photo book of Manoocher Deghati's life work including his biography in the form of a novel by Ursula Janssen.
Manoocher Deghati is an award-winning photojournalist who has been photographing conflicts, social issues, everyday events and human stories around the globe. Beginning with the Iranian revolution of 1979 and subsequent war between Iran and Iraq Manoocher has focused his humanistic lens on major historical events. Exiled from Iran in 1985, Manoocher worked for a number of agencies (Sipa, Black Star, AFP) and the United Nations and served as the director of photography for the Associated Press (AP) in the Middle East. His work has appeared in dozens of major publications including: National Geographic, TIME, Life, Newsweek, and GEO. In 2002 he founded the AINA Photojournalism Institute, in Kabul, Afghanistan, to train photojournalists and support the development of photojournalism in the Middle East.
The event is organised with the support of the Slovenian Book Agency.
