Young people in Tehran risk imprisonment posing for photographer Tahmineh Monzavi. She tells Caspar Barnes and Moha Tahery how they feel about their nation’s future
hen she was just 23 years old, Tahmineh Monzavi was imprisoned for taking pictures. The Tehran-based photographer’s images of drug addicts and prostitutes in the poorer parts of her city were deemed “dangerous to society” by the Iranian regime. She spent a month in solitary confinement.