In 1973 I was born in a 2000 year old port in the south of Iran.
I always find that Persian literature is incredibly rich in metaphors.
You can be very strong but also fragile, lively and boring, honest and false, happy and sad, courageous and fearful, clear but still hidden, beautiful and ugly….
This largely determined my way of thinking about life and from the age of 14 it was the basis of my photography.
My search was the way to reality that remained hidden. The reality that I found! And that was sometimes not the reality that the other person saw.
By photographing people I can endlessly show the hidden feelings, desires and experiences.
Human feelings and reactions are the source of my inspiration and so is the relationship between their experience, environment and feelings.
I place myself in the story of the other, from that perspective I see the world with my eyes in someone else’s body and story.
I emigrated to the Netherlands to learn more about the Western culture.
