Hengameh Golestan (Persian: هنگامه گلستان; born Hengameh Jalali (هنگامه جلالی), [1] 1952) is an Iranian photographer. She is considered a pioneer among Iranian women photographers.

Hengameh Golestan was one of a very small group of documentary photographers who captured street protests in the capital, focusing especially on women during and immediately following …

Oct 5, 2022 · On March 8, 1979, Iranian women’s celebrations of International Women’s Day turned into protests against a new decree by Khomeini about mandatory veiling. (Hengameh …

Hengameh Golestan is a photographer born Tehran, Iran in 1952. She briefly studied at London College of Printing in 1988, but primarily trained as an assistant under her husband, the …

Aug 10, 2019 · Hengameh Golestan’s shots of women protesting in the streets of Tehran following the 1979 Iranian Revolution capture the spirit and force of a social and political …

These photographs below document the day in March 1979 when more than 100,000 women gathered on the streets of Tehran to protest against the new Islamic government’s hijab law, …

Oct 13, 2017 · 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 …

Hengameh Golestan is an Iranian photographer and is one of the only women photojournalists working in Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. She briefly studied photography in England …

Hengameh Golestan (b. 1952, Tehran) is a pioneer among Iranian women photographers and between 1974 and 1974 she documented life in Iran photographing women and children – …

Hengameh Golestan's documentary photography work spans three decades (1970–2000) and constitutes a highly original and unique visual document of late 20th-century life in Iran.