Denver: Photo exhibit on Iran being set up in Civic Center

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Photo exhibit on Iran being set up in Civic Center
By Tillie Fong, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Originally published 05:09 a.m., August 25, 2008
Updated 09:01 a.m., August 25, 2008
Lighting designer Chris Krueger, of Crested Butte, checks out"Pictures of You: Images From Iran," a traveling multimediainstallation by Thomas K. Loughlin that spans the bridge betweenphotojournalism and fine art. The show features portraits ofIranians printed on translucent chiffon silk. Chris and the rest ofthe team worked through the night to get the project up and runningin Civic Center Park for the expected crowds on Monday. The exhibitwill stay up until Tuesday.

Photo by Judy DeHaas

Lighting designer Chris Krueger, of Crested Butte, checks out"Pictures of You: Images From Iran," a traveling multimediainstallation by Thomas K. Loughlin that spans the bridge betweenphotojournalism and fine art. The show features portraits ofIranians printed on translucent chiffon silk. Chris and the rest ofthe team worked through the night to get the project up and runningin Civic Center Park for the expected crowds on Monday. The exhibitwill stay up until Tuesday.
A photo exhibit on Iran is put together at Civic Center.

Photo by Tillie Fong, the Rocky

A photo exhibit on Iran is put together at Civic Center.

CIVIC CENTER - A work crew has been working through the night toset up a photo exhibit on Iran.

"We get 48 hours in the park for the project," said Tom Loughlin, aCrested Butte artist, who was overseeing the installation.

Dubbed "Pictures of you: Images of Iran" the photos are printed onlarge sheets of fabric, which are then stretched over a metalframework of a Persian home, with an octagonal room as thecenterpiece.

"The 8-sided room is where an Iranian family would welcomevisitors," said Loughlin. "So we want to welcome people into theexhibit."

The roof is made of photos of the ceiling of a mosque in Isfahan,Iran. The walls of the rest of the structure will be photos ofpeople. A speaker system will also broadcast sounds Loughlinrecorded while in Iran.

"You'll hear kids playing in the street, but they're speakingFarsi," he said.

Loughlin went to Iran three times in the past three years tophotograph ordinary people in Iran, going about their daily lives.

"I wanted to show that we're all human beings, we're all made offlesh," he said. "I think that gets lost in all the politics."

He plans to hang life-size portraits from wires stretched acrossthe two "halls" of the building.

"That way, people will meet Iranians face to face," said Loughlin.

He decided to have the world premiere of the exhibit this weekduring the Democratic National Convention.

"We're making an important decision in November," he said. "(Barack) Obama said he would be willing to sit down with theIranians and talk, but (John) McCain thinks it's OK to bomb Iran. Ithink people should learn more about Iran in order to make a gooddecision."

The exhibit will be up until 11 p.m. Tuesday. Loughlin plans totour the country with the exhibit, but said he will have to do somefundraising first.

"We're not going to be exhibiting in art galleries," he said."We're more likely to be at state fairs."