Hengameh Golestan is a pioneer among Iranian women photographers. She has been documenting life in Iran for twenty-eight years. She has photographed vast numbers of women and children, instances of family life, traditional weddings and everyday life in Iran. She has travelled extensively to towns and villages in Iran and Kurdistan. 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 and suburban wedding, which is both intimate and fascinating.

Hengameh Golestan
Born in 1952, Tehran (IR)
Works and lives in London (UK)

Exhibitions
2005 Five Iranian Photographers, N Gallery, Tbilisi (GA)
1999 Leighton House Museum, London (UK)
1996 Cardiff Festival, Cardiff (UK)
1995 Signals Festival of Women Photographers, Dewsbury Museum, West Yorkshire (UK)
1978 Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran (IR)

Awards
1979 Child–Faith–Freedom Award, First prize, Tehran (IR)

Published in
2005 Fingerprint, Tbilisi (GA)
1998 Index on Censorship, London (UK)
1997 Index on Censorship, London (UK)
1996 Index on Censorship, London (UK)
1994 Women’s Lives in Iran, Independent on Sunday, London (UK)