Scan

Documentary and Conceptual Photography Series
Tehran, Iran | 2018

In Scan, I photographed passengers sitting in the front seats
of cars travelling along Valiasr Street in Tehran. The photographs were
taken from pedestrian bridges, using a fast shutter speed and a
top-down perspective.

From this elevated viewpoint, the camera briefly isolates people moving
through the city. Each image transforms an ordinary moment of travel
into an observation of urban life, personal space, movement, and
anonymity.

The title Scan refers to the act of visually searching the
moving city. The series explores the contrast between the continuous
flow of traffic and the split second preserved by the photograph.

This series was developed as part of the year-long Valiasr collaborative
photography project and was exhibited in Valiasr Folder First
at Aria Gallery in Tehran in October 2018.