Keeping True to an Iranian Vision, Minus Big Money Newsha Tavakolian returned a 50,000-euro prize rather than see her work about contemporary Iran be controlled — distorted, she says — by the financier whose foundation selected her. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/17/keeping-true-to-an-iranian-vision-minus-big-money/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 “I had to make a choice between my artistic freedom and my dignity, or … Continue reading Keeping True to an Iranian Vision, Minus Big Money