There are places that remain mysterious to people in the West -especially Iran, after almost three decades of political isolation. In December, 2006, a caravan of writers, photographers and artists from seven European countries and the United States toured Iran for
three weeks with a delegation of Iranian counterparts, stopping in
the romantic, historic cities of Tehran, Shiraz, Yazd and Isfahan,
participating in cultural workshops, lectures and discussions, seeking to
discover the heart of this much-talked-about but little-known nation. Iran, A Winter Journey combines color and black-and-white images, and short, evocative texts (and even poetry) to create a picture of present day Iran.