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The work Banoo is about Iranian women and their position in contemporary Iranian society. Their rise in science and the working world leaves an impression in a male-dominated society - so women have now gained respect outside their own four walls. To achieve a little insight into the situation of women in Iran today and how they see themselves, in this photo series, I accompanied women from different social classes and places in Iran in their everyday lives and got to know them better. Banoo is a respectable epithet for women and means lady.
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Saghar plays the harmonica, and her dog Happy accompanies her. She currently works as a freelance textile designer at a film production agency in Tehran.
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Shahla is among the first women in Iran to get on a surfboard and surf the Gulf of Oman’s waves on Chabahar’s beaches. She says: "As women, if you want to surf in Chabahar - where men are in charge and women have a low presence in society - you are often looked at very strangely and encounter unacceptance and shaking of heads. People often put obstacles in your way, too. It's a very unusual image in Chabahar to see a woman running towards the open sea with her surfboard under her arm."
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Nesa has been in a wheelchair since 2006 after a car accident. She was hospitalized for a total of one year and underwent eighteen operations. She founded the Association for the Support of People with Spinal Cord Injuries with her friends for several years. Nese says, "Work is like therapy for me - it makes me feel strong, happy, and confident. The feedback I get about my work motivates me."
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"I struggled to be noticed in society and held my own in a male-dominated field," says Maryam, a veteran Iranian photographer. She looks at the test print of her book The Government of 80, printed by Nazar Publishing House in Tehran. Forty years after the Islamic Revolution in 1979, she shows the second part of her pictures in the book The Government of 80, which shows the events after the revolution.
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Maryam and her husband are farmers and live with their children in Golbou — a small village 150 km southwest of Mashhad, and translates as Flower Fragrance. As a large cultivation area for saffron, saffron’s scent lies over the village between the end of October and November, thus coining its name.
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