Humans of Tehran: Hipsters, thrashers and parkour

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https://www.facebook.com/HumansOfTehran

http://souciant.com/2013/03/humans-of-tehran/

Photographer Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York project, which has spawned “Humans of” pages in many other locales – Dublin, Mumbai, Jerusalem and the Fiji Islands to name a few – began in 2010. Stanton had just left a career in the Chicago financial industry to move to New York, where he began walking around the city, taking street portraits.

At this time, Souciant contributor Shirin Barghi had just begun attending New York University to pursue a journalism career in the US. Shirin, who grew up in Tehran and worked as a journalist there until she came to the US, mulled over the idea of starting a Humans of Tehran in the winter of 2011 while she was back in Tehran to attend her father’s funeral.

“I wanted to do something similar to Humans of New York, and at the time I thought this would be a very good project for me take my mind off things,” Shirin told me in a Skype interview. “The image people have of Iran is so demonized and divorced from the reality of the people there that I thought this sort of project is a really good way of showing normal people in Tehran.”

She decided to formally begin the project, billed as “a pictorial glimpse into the daily lives of Iranians in their beloved dusty rusty Tehran” on Facebook, with just herself and her Canon EOS 450D.

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1. fabulous. i want to visit iran in the worst way. nt

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2. Humans of New York also has excellent pics from Iran.

You have to scroll a while to find them...I think they're from December 2012.

http://www.humansofnewyork.com/



I hesitated the first time she skated by, and missed my chance. So when she passed me twenty minutes later, I thought the Universe was trying to tell me something. (Isfahan, Iran)

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5. She is adorable! n/t

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3. They still have public phone booths!

No Verizon logos to be seen, anywhere. We'll have to bomb and embargo them till they demand AT&T Wireless.

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4. I'm not all that surprised. My cat hospital FB page has been liked by dozens of Middle Eastern

veterinarians, cat lovers, and people in various animal and medical fields. Their pics show them to be not too different from us in many respects.

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6. A nephew of mine is half Iranian and a sweet kid

He could be one of those in the last picture, a couple of them resemble him, particularly the one on the right.

Yeah, people are pretty much the same in many ways despite cultural differences I think.