Award. The photograph was described as having "immense visual, political and emotional presence". The subject of the photograph sees in it "an image of a human being that has been stripped of his identity, personhood and humanity...degraded by other human beings, tortured and deprived of all his human rights". The play Manus, written by Iranian playwright Nazanin Sahamizadeh in 2017, tells the story of eight Iranians, including Boochani, who fled Iran for Australia and were detained on Manus. It relates some of the stories of their lives in Iran, their trip in leaky boats from Indonesia and their experiences in detention, including details of the 2014 riot and killing of Reza Barati. It was performed in Tehran in February–March 2017, running for a month in the Qashqai Hall of the City Theatre Complex and attended by nearly 3000 people, including Abbas Araghchi, Iran's deputy foreign minister, and Australian diplomats. It was also performed in two cities in Bangladesh in October 2017, at the Chittagong Shilpakala Academy in Chittagong and in Dhaka. The playwright Sahamizadeh said it was performed there as a part of its international tour to express compassion and solidarity with Rohingya refugees from Myanmar who had sought protection in Bangladesh recently. It was directed by the author and produced by the Tehran-based Verbatim Theatre Group at the Adelaide Festival in March 2019. In 2018 an ex-soldier and former security guard for G4S, writing under the pseudonym Michael Coates, published a book entitled Manus Days: The Untold Story of Manus Island, published by Connor Court Publishing and with a foreword written by Miranda Devine. The author writes about ethnic tensions, claiming that the unrest was mostly fomented by Iranian detainees, and of the violent riots of 2014 (in which two security guards were implicated but never brought to justice in the murder of Reza Barati), when he was working as a member of the Emergency Response Team. Kurdish asylum seeker Farhad Bandesh finds spiritual escape in art and music. He has written a song entitled "The Big Exhale" and released a video (made with the collaboration of Melbourne City Ballet) on YouTube and audio on Wantok Music in June 2019. Australian musicians David Bridie and Jenell Quinsee helped to write and record it. A short (13-minute) documentary film entitled Manus made by artist and refugee advocate Angus McDonald was released in 2019, about the stand-off when the facility was