Last chance to see Iranian photography exhibition
When she was just 16, Newsha Tavakolian began working for the Iranian daily newspaper Zan (which means woman), and was one of the youngest photographers to cover the 1999 student uprising in the country. She went on to photograph the war in Iraq, the 2009 disputed presidential elections in Iran and other regional conflicts and disasters. An exhibition in Dubai of her work that focuses on everyday life in Iran — street scenes and images of ordinary people, including pictures of taxi drivers, children and women — has been extended for a week. Newsha Tavakolian: Blank Pages of an Iranian Photo Album runs until Thursday. For more information, visit www.east-wing.org.
A video archive of the Moscow conceptualists
The artist Vadim Zakharov spent 25 years documenting the activities of the Moscow "conceptualist" movement. The video footage details their early shows in perestroika-era Russia to their work in a post-Soviet landscape. This archive, now part of an exhibition in Moscow, has footage from more than 180 shows that took place from 1989 to 2014. It features leading lights of the movement, such as Yuri Albert, Ivan Chuikov and Ilya Kabakov. Vadim Zakharov, Postscript after RIP: A Video Archive of Moscow Artists' Exhibitions (1989 to 2014) runs at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art until October 25. For more information, visit www.garageccc.com.
Explore a century of photography in West Africa
The rich tradition of photography in West Africa is explored in this exhibition in New York. It features about 80 photographs taken from the 1870s to the 1970s, and many are on display for the first time. They feature self-portraits, staged images and casual snapshots. Works from distinguished artists such as J D "Okhai" Ojeikere, Seydou Keïta and Samuel Fosso are on display, along with images from lesser-known photographers such as George A G Lutterodt, the Lisk-Carew Brothers and Alex A Acolatse. In and Out of the Studio: Photographic Portraits from West Africa runs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art until January 3. For more information, visit www.metmuseum.org.
