Cast Out of Heaven – Photographs by Hashem Shakeri | Interview by Gregory Eddi Jones | LensCulture In these barren, eerie landscapes, Hashem Shakeri unveils the failed promises of a major housing project on the outskirts of Tehran via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/hashem-shakeri-cast-out-of-heaven-2 In these barren, eerie landscapes, Hashem Shakeri unveils the failed promises of a major…
Cast Out of Heaven – Home’21 International Photography Prize Winner | LensCulture Home’21 International Photography Prize Winner via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/solo-exhibition/hashem-shakeri-cast-out-of-heaven In addition to the huge population moving from Tehran, people from all over Iran are migrating to these new towns. These new developments are notorious for social pathologies, like high rates of suicide among pupils…
Portfolio: The Ghost Towers of Iran’s Housing Crisis Robin Wright on Hashem Shakeri’s photographs of Iran’s housing crisis. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/21/ghost-towers Hashem Shakeri first glimpsed some of these ghostly concrete towers on a weekend drive in 2007. He was baffled by the idea that Iranians would be expected to live in the austere…
