A women-only gym
Two Iranian women lift weights in a gym in city of Shiraz. In Iran, women’s gyms are completely separated from men’s gyms and the men cannot enter the female spaces.
Photographer Hossein Fatemi by his pictures, is showing a nation of two halves. There is the public half that the government wishes to promote, the pious and religious one. Then there is what Fatemi describes as “the semi-hidden part of the country” that exists behind closed doors.