Tehran is a big crowded city with a selection of distinctive individuals, with even more distinctive lives and exceptional behaviors. After many years when I returned to the city, where I was born and raised, everything had a different look from the time I had left it.
By living there again, I eventually discovered another city. A hidden one, breathing with a feminine beauty under the skin of the forbidden. Unlike traditional women, they put make ups, leave their hair revealed under scarves and look at beauty as the struggle against enforced Hijab. They do sports and ride bikes in parks and smoke in cafes. Wear lovely dresses and go to parties with their boyfriends. That does not relate to their religious lives. But, Bans have rooted deep inside their souls.
This collection, which is my first photo set, I have tried to reconstruct the moments which become images of lives of those distinctive individuals caught in the conflicts between the Forbidden and Hidden cities.
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