Hengameh Golestan

 

 Hengameh Golestan is a pioneer among Iranian women photographers. She has   been documenting live in Iran
for twenty-eight years. She
has photographed vast numbers
of women and children, instances
of family life, traditional
wedding and everyday life in
Iran. During the revolution,
she captured moments of
rebellion on the part of women.
She photographed the last day
for Iranian women without the
hejab(veil), when group of
women from every profession
– nurses, students, theathers
– took part in an enormous
demonstration which ended
with them being attacked and
stabbed in the streets of
Tehran,

Hengameh Golestan Was born
in 1952 in Tehran. Married to
photojournalist Kaveh golestan.
She developed her own photographic
practice as well as assisting her
husband on various projects, including
`Recording The Truth` a film about censorship in Iran for channel Four which 		 
resulted in Kaveh`s house arrest in Iran

Hengameh Golestan has traveled 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.Paragliding records an afternoon spent by a group of women    paragliding in crash helmets and chador, a striking and often paradoxical set
of images of life since the revolution. Her extraordinary record of the last day before the veil is shown for the first time at Tart Gallery.


1978 Exhabition at Iranian Museum of Contemporary Art
 1979 Prize-winner in 'Child – Faith – Freedom'
 1979 umented women during the Iranian revolution
1981 Kurdistan. Photographing Kurdish women at prayer and at work, as well as demonstrating
 1983 Collection of photographs by Hengameh and Kaveh Golestan of children – before the revolution. During the uprising and during the Iran-Iraq war – published
 1984 Moved to Britain with husband and eight month old son
 1988 Photographic short course at London College of Printing
 1991 Assisted Kaveh Golestan in making of 'Recording The Truth' Channel Four film about censorship in Iran.
 1994 Leeds Article about women`s lives in Iran in Independent on Sunday magazine.
 1995 Exhibited at Signals Festival of women Photographers, Dewsbury Museum,
1996 Exhibitted at Cardiff Jazz Festival.
 1996-98 Series of photographs published in Index on censorship: exhibited at international women`s day shows
 1999 Group show of Iranian photographers and painters, Leighton House Museum.
2005 Group exhibition at " N Gallery" in Georgia and an article in
a Georgian Magazine called "Finger Print".