Winner of the 5th Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award, Newsha Tavakolian’s seminal work uses the concept of a family photo album to explore the stalled dreams of the Iranian middle class. Noticing that family albums often ended in blank pages once children reached adulthood in the Islamic Republic, Tavakolian “fills” these gaps with staged and candid portraits of her peers. The book provides a complex, unromanticized view of a generation caught between rigid social ideology and their own personal aspirations. It is a powerful document of resilience and social restriction in Tehran, blending the intimacy of personal history with the broader scope of documentary journalism.
