In the Shadows of Silent Women

I come from a war-torn family. My parents were forced to leave their city during the Iraq-Iran war and their family settled in different cities in Iran and the world.

I was born in the middle of the war, so I never experienced family gatherings. That’s why I started a journey to find my roots as an Iranian woman in this project, I drove more than 50 thousand kilometres in different parts of Iran to find women who live in intertwined communities. A journey into the history of Iranian women’s life, which is a combination of tradition and patriarchy, and at the same time, linguistic and cultural diversity. Women who, despite the limitations, with solidarity and interweaving in women’s groups strive for the freedom and education of their children and at the same time, they want to preserve their ancestral identity.

Some of these women are the last generation and even a last family who still live in this style.While we urban women have been fighting for our rights in Iran for years, rural women are working more unitedly than us in their women’s groups by tolerating the lifestyle and trying to protect it. By directly communicating with nature, they transform their sufferings into products that speak of freshness, beauty and sustainability. Because resistance in Iran is women and women mean the earth.This photo series consists of sixty photos, some of which you can see here, and it continues.