Thomas Cristofoletti – Iran’s Booming Consumer Culture | LensCulture

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Iran’s Booming Consumer Culture – Photographs and text by Thomas Cristofoletti | LensCulture

Despite slow mobile internet connections, high prices, and constant governmental censorship of the media, Iranians are frantically buying smartphones, tablets, flat screen TVs, Western beauty products, and more — in ultramodern hypermarkets

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During his visit to Cuba in 2012, former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, “Thankfully we are already witnessing that the capitalist system is in decay, on various stages it has come to a dead end — politically, economically and culturally.”

But the changes that have been taking place in Iran in the last few years seem to contradict this.