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In most Moslem countries, photographing women is almost impossible for a male photographer.
Hengameh Golestan is a pioneer among Iranian women photographers. She has been documenting life in Iran for twenty-eight years. She has photographed women and children, instances of family life, traditional wedding and everyday life in Iran.
Hengameh Golestan was born in 1952 in Tehran.
She has travelled extensively to towns and villages in Iran and Kurdestan. As a woman, she has had access to women in their domestic settings, enabling her to produce a body of work – including the hand tinted Village Wedding, village Life an Suburban Wedding. Paragliding records an afternoon spent by a group of women paragliding in crash helmets and chador.