Fear of the naked body and gender issues hang in the minds of Iran’s post-revolutionary generations, in Tabriz, Iran, on January 21, 2015.
When I see a butterfly, I remember the poets. They gave to us a little chance to be alive, in Noor, Mazandaran, Iran, on July 15, 2015.
Free from freedom. A young boy holds a pigeon that has been brought to market for sale in Tabriz, Iran, on August 10, 2015.
A view from roofs of a home in Tabriz, Iran on January 17, 2019. After the Iranian Revolution the new regime moved quickly to ban alcohol and gambling, and require women to wear veils, yet modernity and Western influence still broke through. Hip hop and pop music, as well as Hollywood movies, stream over satellite dishes which top the cities’ roofs.
Negative emotions and feelings are highly contagious and can grow to encompass all of life. For hundreds of years, cats have become an iconic element of the Tabriz Grand Bazaar, and are cared for by guilds, here in Tabriz, Iran, on October 11, 2016.
A man smoking hookah in the teahouse at the Grand Bazaar in Tabriz, Iran, on October 15, 2019. Teahouses are one of the most important places in Azerbaijani culture and tradition to congregate and discuss art, politics and beyond, but there is always the risk of government spies listening in.
A man watches the girls next door from a discreet window in Tehran, Iran, on July 30, 2015. Gender segregation in post-revolutionary Iranian society created generations in which human relations became a fundamental challenge.
Love is difficult when you can't touch. Two friends sit in a traditional restaurant waiting for their order in Tabriz, Iran, on December 1, 2014.
Portrait of a man in the Tabriz Grand Bazaar, a historical market situated in the city centre of Tabriz, Iran, on January 26, 2016. The largest covered bazaar in the world, this is the heart of Tabriz’ economy and the first place affected by foreign sanctions and the ongoing financial crisis.
A girl stands with her father in an alley in Tabriz, Iran, on September 18, 2015. The rising cost of living has pushed nearly 19 million Iranians into slums over the past forty years, and increased the risk of child marriage and delinquency for an uncountable number of children.
A couple relaxes in the Caspian Sea in Mazandaran, Iran, on July 17, 2015. The Caspian Sea is a popular tourist destination as well as an important geopolitical region due to its shared border with Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Russia.
My sisters Yalda and Shadi hug our mother, who weeps out of fear and exhaustion caused by rising debts and our poor financial situation in the wake of my father’s death, in our home in Tabriz, Iran, on September 9, 2014.
On New Year’s Day we went to visit my grandmother in Tabriz, Iran, on March 21, 2015. I asked her what her celebratory fish bowl was doing in the refrigerator but she had no idea what I was talking about. My grandmother takes fluoxetine pills and she has raised five children.
A toothache is close to the worst thing, but still better than the cost of a dentist. My tooth after I pulled it myself in Tabriz, Iran, on December 04, 2017.
The view of a half-finished building left abandoned following a citywide lockdown in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in Tabriz, Iran, on February 25, 2020.
After the COVID-19 pandemic announcement Amin, 32, quarantined by himself at home in Tabriz, Iran, on February 25, 2020. Amin suffers from depression made worse by this intense isolation.
A cemetery crew carries a body for washing before burial in Tabriz, Iran, on October 8, 2020. At this time around twenty COVID-19 mortalities were being buried every day in Tabriz Public Cemetery alone.
A stormy night on the roof of a cafe in the city of Tabriz, Iran, on May 21, 2020. Cafes, shops and public places were officially shut down due to the pandemic, pushing many businesses into bankruptcy and exacerbating depression rates among young people.
Sima takes a shower after each outing because of the horror of the COVID-19 virus, in Gilan Province, Iran, on November 12, 2020.
A mother and father visit the grave of their son, who passed away at age 25 from COVID-19, in Tabriz, Iran, on November 26, 2020. The mother lies prostrate on his grave, while the father reads the Quran to bring peace to his son’s spirit.
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Farshid Tighehsaz

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Farshid Tighehsaz is a documentary photographer based in Tabriz, Iran. While he studied psychology, Tighehsaz’s drive to become a photographer was inspired by his father’s passion for the medium. His work focuses on the experience of being human and the structural, cultural, environmental and interior aspects that determine our lives.

His first project “The Environment of Love” came from a relationship that helped him to reimagine his world, and his second “Like Color of Loneliness,” documents the sudden loss of his father and how grief reshaped his family.

Tighehsaz is currently continuing his long-term project “Labyrinth” about the socio-psychological experiences of Iran’s post-revolutionary generations, as well as “The New Name of Death,” in response to the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

His work has been published internationally by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Reuters, Associated Press, Agence France-Presse and others. Tighehsaz has been honored by the POY77 World Understanding Award, Cortona On The Move, the LensCulture Critics’ Choice Award and FotoEvidence book award for his project “Labyrinth.” Also, he was awarded the  Alexia Foundation Professional Grant 2020 for “The New Name of Death,” among others.

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