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IRAN

A Visual Journey Through Iran

CATEGORY

Documentary / Contemporary Iran

YEAR

2018-2026

LOCATION

Ataei  (55)

A Visual Journey Through Iran

CURATORIAL INTRODUCTION

This ongoing photographic project is a visual exploration of Iran, its landscapes, people, cultures, and the changing relationship between human life and the land. Rather than presenting Iran as a fixed geographical or cultural image, the series brings together photographs made across different places and moments, observing the country through everyday life, social realities, environmental changes, heritage, traditions, urban spaces, and the traces of time. The photographs move between the intimate and the monumental—from people and their daily lives to landscapes shaped by human presence, from cultural heritage to places undergoing profound transformation. Together, they form fragments of a larger portrait: an Iran that is constantly changing, while carrying the weight of its history and memory. This is not an attempt to define Iran in a single image. It is an evolving visual archive of a land, its people, and the stories that continue to shape it.

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