“Ice is the solid form/state of water that its freezing temperature decreases with increasing pressure.”
This frozen picture “Protesters” is from wide street protests of tens of thousands of women during March 8-12th of 1979 (International Women’s Day), just less than a month after the Islamic Revolution happened in Iran.
These protests – mostly led and marched by women – were for the equal rights women had with men up until then, which the newly founded dictatorial regime started to take away immediately after coming to power by announcing and enforcing laws like the compulsory hijab law, for instance.
“Protesters” is from the “hICEstory” art series I created in 2020 after the world started to face the global disaster of the Covid-19 pandemic when we all had to quarantine. Within that despair and loneliness I was feeling more than ever as an artist and as a human, I found myself creating these artworks as if they were in isolation too.
I put some images from history or significant events in water and froze them into special ice forms and then captured each new photo in front of my camera.
They were frozen just like the world we were living in but still breathing, a representer of what is behind the ice which the surface could melt away or break at any moment.
“Iran is a rich depository of contributions in the field of art, architecture, music, literature and cinema. The city of Isfahan, in particular, of opulent architectural structures and is the birthing ground of many prominent Iranian artists and prominent figures. It is also the home of Armin Amirian, a 20-year-old photographer and artist who, inspired by the work of many before him and the plight of his country, has chosen to create dynamic interpretations of the collective experiences of boasts his people.” (By Jill Tan Radovan - Lomography Magazine, 2015)
Armin Amirian was born in 1995 in Iran. A self-taught artist, he spent his childhood and teenage years exploring various genres and mediums of art, deeply influenced by the world and cultures, while also pursuing an education in Physics. His professional art journey into photography and cinema began in his early teens, when the act of looking took on a more prominent role with the arrival of a photography camera into his life.
