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IRAN MAIDEN
In 1989 while in Egypt, i bought my first ever album (on cassette) called "Somewhere in Time" by UK heavy metal band IRON MAIDEN. I quickly noticed a funny typo error on the insert card (as well as on the cassette itself) as the name of the band was misspelled : instead of IRON MAIDEN it was IRAN MAIDEN.
Years later when i became a photographer, i kept looking for a context to photograph this old cassette with its funny error. Now with the revolution going on in Iran (since December 2025), it occurred to me that doing a photo of this cassette by holding it high like a monolith, represents in a very subtle way this revolution against a totalitarian religious tyranny that would ban for sure such an album from its culture.