Photographs of six female at the Szekler Gallery in Washington

The remaining five artists—Newsha Tavakolian, Shadi Ghadirian, Malekeh Nayiny, Gohar Dashti, and Mitra Tabrizian—work in this post-Revolution environment, staging and manipulating photographs to reveal deeply moving individual stories, as well as unique observations about contemporary life. Together, these images explore themes of memory, loss, and exile, but also of defiance and hope.