Iran, 2020
In January 2020, I traveled through Iran while the world held its breath. Between the silence of a looming pandemic and the tension after General Soleimani’s assassination, life continued in markets, mosques, and streets heavy with uncertainty.
These portraits bear witness to a country caught between past and future. Young women push back their veils, refusing the destiny of their grandmothers. Children grow up under a double oppression: bound by their own regime and defined by the outside world.
This work does not seek answers. It preserves a moment—faces, glances, and stories that resist being erased by the speed of headlines.
