People in distance

People in distance is the name of a black and white photography project implemented by Hossein Rajabian, the Iranian photographer. The photos were taken for a charity auction. This project started from 2002 and continued until the arrest of Hossein Rajabian in 2013. For this project, analogue and digital cameras were used for a better expression of the texture of the photos depending on the existing setting and subject.

The theme of the photograph collection

People in distance includes the portrait photographs of the inhabitants of the most remote areas of Iran, and they are not seen in big cities. It was arranged that this photography project cover the portraits of children of Iran and provide them to UNICEF for the support of Iranian children. However, this arrangement was never accomplished due to the arrest of the photographer and seizure of the photographs by the Iranian intelligence forces.

Arrest of the photographer and seizure of photographs

A large number of photographic negatives and digital records of these photos were seized by the intelligence forces of Iran, and there remained only a few number of low-quality photos. The high quality versions of these photographs have never been returned to their owner and photographer after being seized by the Iranian Intelligence Agency.