Kaveh Golestan - Recording the Truth in Iran

Malu Halasa
Malu Halasa is an editor and journalist. She is co-editor of Creating Spaces of Freedon: Culture in Defiance (2002), Transit Beirut: New Writing and Images (2004), Transit Tehran: Young Iran and Its Inspirations (2008) and The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie: Intimacy and Design (2008). Former managing editor of the Prince Claus Fund Library, she was also a founding editor of Tank magazine. Malu Halasa lives in London and writes for the British press.

Hengameh Golestan
Hengameh Golestan was born in 1952 in Tehran, and is considered a pioneer among Iranian women photographers. Her photographs, which have documented life in Iran for the past twenty-eight years, have been exhibited both at home and internationally. During the Islamic Revolution she captured the rebellion of women, including the last day women were allowed to go without the hejab (Islamic headscarf), in public. She assisted her husband, the late Kaveh Golestan, on numerous projects, including the Channel Four television documentary Recording the Truth. She runs the Kaveh Golestan Estate and Kaveh Golestan Photojournalism Award with her son Mehrak