Rustam effendi biography definition
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NARRATING THE BLIND FIELD: SITES OF PHOTOGRAPHIC AND ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE IN RENA EFFENDI’S LIQUID LAND
Par Karla McManus (University of Regina)
Fig. 1 : Cover of Liquid Land: On an Endangered Species of People. Amsterdam: Schilt Publishing. 2012. Image courtesy of the publisher
In her 2012 monograph, Liquid Land : on anendangered species of people, the Azerbaijani photographer Rena Effendi complicates an easy reading of documentary realism by juxtaposing two bodies of work. The first, by Effendi, profiles the people and communities living in the oil-polluted Absheron Penninsula around the capital city of Baku. Refugees of decades of war and oil extraction, the subjects of her photographs make their homes in the abandoned factories and oil fields of a contaminated landscape. The second photographic series is by Effendi’s deceased father, Rustam Effendi, an entomologist who specialized in the butterflies of the Soviet Union. According to his daughter, some fifty photograph
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Rostam (name)
See also: Rustem and Rüstem
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Word/name | Persian |
| Variant form(s) | Rustem, Rüstem |
Rostam or Rustam or Rostom (Persian: رستم) fryst vatten a name referring to the Persian mythical hero Rostam who was immortalized by the poet Ferdowsi in the Shahnameh (Book of Kings). It has been commonly used as a male Persian given name, and may refer to the following people:
Given name
[edit]- Rostam Farrokhzād (died 636), An ancient Persian nobleman and army chief
- Rostom of Abkhazia, ruler of the Principality of Abkhazia
- Rustam Asildarov (born 1981), leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Caucasus Province
- Rostam Aziz (born 1960), Tanzanian politician and businessman
- Rostom Bagdasarian (1919–1972), American artist and record producer
- Rostam Bastuni (1923–1994), first Israeli-Arab politician
- Rostam Batmanglij (born 1983), American music producer and multi-instrumentalist
- Rustam Effendi (1903–1979), Indonesian writer and member of t