Dominic

Hi everybody, welcome to The Rest Is History, it's Dominic here and I'm thrilled to be unveiling our latest exclusive mini-series for our Rest Is History club members.

We will be plunging into the history of photography and in particular what photography tells us about history.

I'm joined by my friend, the great portrait photographer, Chris Floyd, who is going to be talking us through some particular historical moments.

So we'll be looking at revolutions, the Arab Spring, the Prague Spring, the revolution in Romania in 1989.

We'll be talking about music, so the blues, David Bowie and so on.

We'll be looking at fashion and the role that photography has played in the transformation of fashion.

And finally, we'll be talking about technology.

how technology has changed photography and how photography has in turn affected the way that we see history.

So this is a brilliant series.

It's a lot of fun.

We would love as many people as possible to join up and to see this series with me and Chris talking about some of the most iconic images in recent history.

And in this first episode, we are looking at revolutions.

And here is a lovely little clip.

Yeah, isn't that interesting?

So he's Iranian himself, right?

He was born in Iran, but he left Iran and then he grew up in Algeria.

And then he returned to Iran during the...

So this is... Khomeini has been back for just under a year.

And actually, I suppose the fact that you're telling that story is a reminder that actually for the first...

Oh, actually for years, for about the first two or three years of the revolution.