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David De Hannay

Jul 2, 2025, 7:25 AM

Pigeon Camera, Germany, 1917–1918 Alias: Sir Veillance A century before drones, they gave wings to the lens.

“In a land of mirrors, even the pigeons look suspicious.” — Unknown prisoner, Evin A pigeon handler holds a bird aloft, expression stoic, wings paused mid-prayer. Nothing about this moment seems suspicious—until you’ve lived under a regime that sees espionage...

Jun 27, 2025, 11:27 PM

Satan’s Throne: Evin Prison, Iran

By a Former Political Prisoner Who Escaped the Regime Am I Dreaming? Evin Prison. Tehran. June 23, 2025. It was hit by a rocket—fired by the Israeli army. The gate, once sealed like a tomb, blown apart. On the rubble:...

Jun 23, 2025, 2:25 PM

Mercy to the People of Iran

These images are the voices of Iran—silenced at home, ignored abroad. They are not terrorists. They are women, artists, child laborers, homeless, mothers—simply, human beings. From Tehran to New York: Silencing a Witness I began photographing in Iran in 1999—not for...

Jun 22, 2025, 4:13 PM

Wet Dreams Under the Ayatollah’s Eye

In 2001, in the blistering heat of July, I began photographing what became WET DREAMS—my conceptual art response to war, terror, sex, and censorship. The idea began with an object: a condom. Innocuous, playful, protective. I juxtaposed it with...

Jun 22, 2025, 6:38 AM

From Charlie to Silence: Macron’s France Today

Until this week, I proudly identified as half-French—not by passport, but by soul. French literature raised me. Sartre, Camus, André Malraux, the Surrealists, the French New Wave—and Mr. Shapour Bakhtiar—taught me to think, to resist, to feel the weight...

Jun 21, 2025, 3:10 PM

From Persia to Propaganda: How a Nation Was Hijacked

In cities across the West, flags are being waved that claim to represent Iran—but they don’t. These are not symbols of the Iranian people, but of Hamas or the Islamic regime that has ruled over them for 45 years....

Nov 24, 2017, 9:42 AM

Terrorism In Afghanistan

One year before my journey to Afghanistan 9/11 happened, Mullah Omar had a implemented a theocracy in Afghanistan with ludicrous laws requiring men to grow beards and women to wear periwinkle tablecloths. From the beginning of the Taliban’s rise...

About Me

Founder of NYC Art Movement (b. pandemic and BLM era). Largest NYC's Art Show 2020 early COVID19. Anthropological photography and film of +120 mural street artists. His conceptual artwork was previewed in the BBC World News. He has released several books and films on art, cinema and politics. As a Human Rights activist for eighteen years, he produced anthology documentary movies in and about contested geographies such as Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, and the US.