Beautiful Berlin Boys - Hardcover

by Ashkan Sahihi (Photographer)

For Iranian-American photographer Ashkan Sahihi, New York City in the 1980s epitomized refuge and protection, progress and opportunity. But the community was soon shaken by HIV and AIDS, and numerous friends and colleagues from the art scene lost their lives. In the 2010s in Berlin, it appeared to Sahihi that Berlin had replaced New York as a place of longing. Sahihi's conceptual series is an homage to friends of days past and a plea for the privilege of living a life in freedom and openness, as well as for tolerance and a sense of belonging.

Author Biography

Ashkan Sahihi was born in Tehran in 1963 and grew up in Germany. He moved to New York in the spring of 1987 and has lived and worked in Berlin since 2013. He has photographed for notable publications such as ZEITmagazin, the New Yorker, and Vogue. In the last years he has turned his focus to conceptual series, with exhibitions at MoMA/PS1/New York, Macro/Rome, the Akademie der Künste/Berlin, and the Andrea Rosen Gallery/New York.