[Leica] IMGS: Abyaneh, Iran

[tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley)]

Thanks for looking ;-)   Most of the women we met were very friendly in
their own homes but very shy out in public.

Tina

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
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> I look at them Tina, but it is not always easy to keep up with you :-)
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> I really like this part; also nice to see some women for a change. The way
> they are hidden away from public life in that part of the world sometimes
> gives the impression that the societies in Iran or Saudi consist of
> self-reproducing, mostly bearded, men ;-)
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> > On 10 May 2016, at 20:36, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > PESO:
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> > I'm not sure any of these are getting through but I'm continuing to post
> > anyway!!  We visited an ancient Zoroastrian red mud village in the
> > mountains near Isfahan.  There are only 30 families left there and they
> are
> > mostly elderly people.  The kids have all left for the cities.  We
> visited
> > a bakery, met some women on the street and talked to Soghra, an Abyanaki
> > widow. The women here wear a colorful chador which is their traditional
> > costume. They speak Middle Persian here which is very different from
> Farsi
> > but Hossein managed to translate most of what she had to say.  She had
> come
> > back to visit but now lives in Tehran.  Her only son, a doctor who lived
> in
> > Kerman, had died of a heart attack when he was only in his 50's.  She
> comes
> > back to the village for the quiet and to get away from the city.  We
> really
> > like this village and would go back any time.  I have a lot more photos
> to
> > process from there!
> >
> >
> http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Iran/G0000YmlbTddL96g/I0000PrFtiRdZnKo
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> > And keep going until there aren't any more!!
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> > C&C greatly appreciated.
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