Gobo Magazine-Issue1

About This Issue

The first issue of GOBO Magazine serves as an introduction to the magazine’s curatorial vision and intellectual direction. Centered on photography as both an artistic medium and a way of understanding the world, this edition presents a concise exploration of the field through historical reflection, artistic inquiry, and critical commentary.
Issue 1 highlights influential figures who played a defining role in the evolution of photography and includes essays on renowned painters whose ideas and visual approaches continue to resonate across artistic disciplines. In doing so, the issue opens a conversation between photography and painting, showing how both mediums shape perception, memory, and expression.
This edition also features selected works by photographers Mustafa Selcuk and Ehsan Moradi, adding a contemporary visual dimension to the issue’s broader critical framework.

As a platform for expression and discovery, GOBO Magazine seeks to expand the boundaries of art and photography, engaging deeply with human, social, and aesthetic concepts.

Issue Details

• Issue Number: 1
• Theme: Photography
• Language: English | Persian
• Format: PDF
• Page Count: 64 pages
• Publication Date: April 2025

Editorial Note

Every beginning is also a way of learning how to see. In this first issue, we return to photography not only as a medium of representation, but as a space for reflection, connection, and visual thought. These pages bring together history, criticism, and contemporary image-making in order to open a wider conversation about art and perception. We hope this issue invites you to look more closely, think more deeply, and enter the world of GOBO with curiosity.

Gobo Magazine | Begin with the language of images. GOBO Issue 1 offers a concise yet thoughtful exploration of photography, its history, its influential voices, and its enduring dialogue with other forms of art.

Publisher: Nader Sharifi 
Format: Digital | PDF | Downloadable
Specs: 21 x 29 cm

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