The picture I liked was two men sitting on a bench. This picture dragged my attention because it shows two different men in different places doing the same thing but not knowing that some where else in the world there is another person doing the same thing as you. I think that Mr. Nour photographed this image because he wanted to capture the relationship between the two men and how they are doing the same thing but not knowing it.

I'm drawn into this image because it shows what people in western parts do and wear in the sun and what Middle-Easterners wear. It shows how old fashion the left side is compared to the picture at the right side. At the right side people are dancing, some have no shirts on, and pretty much partying. I also notice women in the right side. But on the left side, people are sitting down, with all cloth on, under the sun, shows how frustrated they are. Theirs also no women, only men.  The left side is staring at the right side curiously and look as if they're giving attention, it shows that they are willing to change to modern society.

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I find this image interesting because Naveed Nour shows the past and the future in one shot. On the left side you can see the present in color and on the right side you can see the past in black and white. The two shots are also in different seasons.

Naveed Nour

Naveed Nour is known for being a great photographer. The photos he takes are looked at as pieces of art. Most of his photos in his gallery online, were mostly of people in their daily routine without noticing the camera. His best pictures seem to be taken in the time of the Iran/Iraq war. 

I chose this picture out of the gallery because it looks like two different cultures, one in color and the other in black and white, that are just waiting. The people in the picture look like they're just killing time by reading the paper on a bench, or waiting in front of a building that could be anything public like a bank. Something that also interested me was that the people in black and white seem to be looking up and the people in color seem to be looking down. I'm not sure of the reason but that could be something that Naveed wanted to capture in making this photo.

My personal favorite piece of art by Naveed Nour is two pictures meshed together to compare past and present. The image depicts kids playing soccer, half in black and white depicting years past, and half in color to represent the current day. This is one of my favorites because soccer is such an old pastime that kids/ people stile play and the comparison was almost like the past passing to the future. Another reason I like this one is because I feel like his images of sports are some of the few pieces I can relate to. If i have traveled more, or had any lifestyle connections to his artwork maybe I would appreciate his work more.

Naveed Nour was born in 1963 in Cologne, Germany but his parents were Iranian. He first started taking classes on photography when he went to the photography program at Tehran's University of Fine Arts. In 1992, he moved to America to become more famous and to take a step forward in his career but ended up working Information Technology. I was going through his gallery of photos when a certain photo caught my attention. Naveed Mour does a really nice job of blending the black and white photo with the colored on. As you can see, he also takes the black and white floor and the colored floor and puts them together. There is a little bit of black and white in the colored photo and there is color in the black and white photo. I think that what Naveed is trying to tell the audience, he's trying to show the two different styles of life, the old and the new. 

Naveed Nour

Naveed Nour started his Photography career in 1983 when he entered a Photography Program at Tehran University's School of Fine Arts. Naveed began taking photos of Iraq/Iran war zones, after many different travels Naveed earned his BFA in Photography from the University of Ottawa .  In 1992 when moving to America Naveed had a switch of a career to Information Technology but in 2007 Naveed switch back to fine arts and is now a lecturer at Mass College of Art and Design. All of Naveed hard work is being shown in both North America and Europe.

I was drawn to this picture because it is a photo of two men

doing almost the same thing in two different places. I liked this 

picture because of the colors and how it goes from black and white to

color. In this picture there is two men sitting on benches in a park or 

somewhere else, and it seems like the setting is very peaceful and quite. 

Maybe what Naveed is trying to show here is people do the same things 

in different places.