(2012-2013)

The series New Folder was created between 2012 and 2013, a period in Iran marked by the aftermath of the Green Movement and the onset of economic recession. At the same time, I had just started university – a moment of personal and artistic transition.

The images were taken with a mobile phone camera, a tool that was still relatively new at the time. They are raw, immediate, and largely unplanned – more like digital notes than fully composed photographs. The title New Folder refers to those folders where one stores images without order or purpose, hoping that, one day, they might find meaning.

In this sense, the photographs reflect both the oppressive atmosphere of Tehran’s social climate in those years and the urge to experiment with new ways of seeing. New Folder becomes at once an archive, an experiment, and a snapshot of a shifting reality.