Valiasr Street

Since the earliest days of photography, city streets have been an ideal subject for recording urban life. For this project, a group of documentary photographers turned to Valiasr Avenue, Tehran’s main artery, which runs 17 kilometres from the railway station in the south to Tajrish Square at the foot of the Alborz Mountains.

Lined with shops, places of learning and leisure, the avenue offered a wide range of perspectives on the city. Over the course of 2015, each photographer developed a personal way of seeing it. A subject in constant change, Valiasr Avenue invites ongoing observation; the photographs presented here capture it during that single year.

Photographers: Amir Alimi, Rabeeh Arianfar, Sajedeh Erfani, Mojdeh Fakhri, Pegah Farahi Shandiz, Aida Nakhlband, Soroush Naeimi Zaker, Farzaneh Pajouhesh, Golnaz Zibandekhoo