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Hengameh Golestan (Persian: هنگامه گلستان; born Hengameh Jalali (هنگامه جلالی), 1952) is an Iranian photographer. She is considered a pioneer among Iranian women photographers.
Hengameh Golestan was one of a very small group of documentary photographers who captured street protests in the capital, focusing especially on women during and immediately following the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
Hengameh Golestan is an Iranian photographer and is one of the only women photojournalists working in Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. She briefly studied photography in England and took her first photos at the age of 18.
Sep 10, 2015 · In 1979, Hengameh Golestan was on hand to photograph thousands of women protesting against the compulsory hihab ruling on the streets of Tehran.
Hengameh Golestan: Witness 1979 4 – 27 September 2015 As part of the 2015 Communal Knowledge programme, acclaimed Iranian photographer Hengameh Golestan presents her work in an exhibition and events programme which offers a unique opportunity to rediscover this important female photographer.
Hengameh Golestan is a photographer born Tehran, Iran in 1952. She briefly studied at London College of Printing in 1988, but primarily trained as an assistant under her husband, the renowned photographer, photojournalist and film maker Kaveh Golestan.
As a documentary photographer, Hengameh Golestan's work spans thirty years (between 1970 and 2000) and constitutes a highly original and unique visual document of late twentieth-century life in Iran.
