Girls with Candle

In the Islamic calendar, 10th day of the month of Muharram is the day of 'Ashoora, a day of mourning for all feeling Muslims. It is the day on which, in the year of 61 Hijri (680 AD), in a place called Karbala, in Iraq, Imam Hussain, the grandson of the Prophet of Islam, sacrificed his life and the lives of many of his family members and friends, in order to save the teachings of Islam from utter distortion and destruction. From the first day of Muharram until the day of Ashoora, you can see mourning ceremonies in all cities in Iran. I used to take photographs from this event for more than seven years continuously. I took this one in front of my house in Tehran at the night after Ashoore, when people carrying candles and singing songs about Imam Hussain. I had 50mm Nikkor 1.8 on my camera and used ILFOD PAN 400 and pushed the negative to ASA 800. Negative printed on ILFORD paper (grade 3). No tripod used!
حدود هفت سالي مي‌شد كه به‌طور مداوم از مراسم دهه عاشورا عكاسي مي‌كردم. اين عكس رو از مراسم شام غريبان در تهران(به طور مشخص جلوي خونمون در شمرون) گرفتم. براي عكاسي از لنز ٥٠ ميليمتري نيكون (٨/١) و نگاتيو ايلفورد پان ٤٠٠ استفاده كردم وبراي اينكه بتونم روي دست عكاسي كنم نگاتيو رو به ٨٠٠ پوش دادم. بعد از ظهور، نگاتيو را روي كاغذ شماره ٣ ايلفورد چاپ كردم