Abbas Kiarostami has said somewhere that his “photographs are not the outcome of a love for photography but of nature”. With time, however, the lover for photography has increasingly become important to him. He has often spoken of his relationship with the medium of photography. In the beginning he felt uncertain, restless, imbued with the desire to abandon an artificial, unwholesome way of life in the need to capture the “true essence” of nature. But it is difficult to look for natural beauty; in his moments of solitude this search has urged Kiarostami toward photography.
Yusef Eshaqpour.
