Hometown

I was born in a small town in Iran and spent part of my childhood there before moving to Tehran. Many years later, I returned with a camera and began revisiting places I remembered from childhood.

The town felt both distant and deeply familiar. I had changed, yet its architecture, colors, religious signs, and everyday traces still carried something of where I came from. My relationship with religion had changed profoundly over the years, but these familiar symbols remained connected to childhood, family, and memory in ways I had not expected.

Rather than photographing people directly, I became interested in the traces of their presence and in the memories held within spaces. As I wandered through the town, the project gradually became more personal — a search not only for what remained of my past, but also for parts of myself that seemed to exist somewhere between memory and place. Hometown became a way of searching for fragments of myself in a place that had remained quietly present within me.