This series was photographed in Tehran between 2009 and 2012, when taking photographs in Tehran was considered dangerous. According to an unstated rule, taking photos of the street and its people was forbidden. While taking a photo, it was pretty likely that someone would come close and cross-examine the photographer: “What are you taking a picture of? Do you have permission?” After that, the photographer would be arrested, or their camera would be confiscated.
Therefore I turned my back on the street, turned my camera from the street to its walls, and kept photographing the only thing that could be photographed. It was a sort of stubbornness, with a crooked neck, at an angle of precisely forty-five degrees to the pavement.
So, instead of representing the city, these photos represent my body posture’s relation to the city when photographing the city.