Story · Incident at the Central Workshop · Damoon, Tehran
A Commemorative Photograph
English finding-aid title for a Persian text; not a published English translation title.
A refinery worker detained for bringing a camera explains his wish to photograph the workers beside the installation they built.
- Author
- Ghazi Rabihavi
- Publication
- Incident at the Central Workshop · Damoon, Tehran
- Source date
- 1358 (1979–80) · scanned collection
- Published language
- Persian
- This page
- English publication guide
The story heading dedicates it to the author’s brother Hamid.
English editorial orientation to the named source. The literary text remains with its original publication.
Reading orientation
The narrator waits with Abdullah, a policeman he already knows, after taking a camera into the refinery. He cares about the confiscated film: it shows his fellow workers together, smiling beside the newly completed Merox installation. Their attachment to the equipment comes from having helped build it. Source 2
His recollection returns to an official photograph in which visiting managers occupy the foreground while the workers are sent away. The ordinary wish for a souvenir becomes a question of who is permitted to appear in the record of shared labour. Abdullah’s embarrassment complicates the scene: personal familiarity survives inside an unequal encounter. Source 2
Publication and language
Yek aks-e yadegari is the final story in the scanned Damoon collection, PDF pages 45–54. Its dedication names Hamid. The title page gives Tehran and 1358; the conflicting colophon is discussed in the collection’s edition notebook. The English title here is a finding aid, and no translated literary text is reproduced. Source 1
Sources & credits
- A Commemorative Photograph · publication
Incident at the Central Workshop · Damoon, Tehran. 1358 (1979–80) · scanned collection. Persian. By Ghazi Rabihavi. The story heading dedicates it to the author’s brother Hamid.
- A Commemorative Photograph · reading evidence
A refinery worker detained for bringing a camera explains his wish to photograph the workers beside the installation they built. The website paragraphs are editorial orientation to this source.