Over Your Shoulder (I was looking for the truth)

/Sheyda, my great cousin, is the first child in her family like me / /She was born and raised in Canada after her father, my mother’s uncle, escaped the country illegally before Iran-Iraq war/ /We felt attached to the village because we lived with it, Sheyda visited the village for the first time when she was 30, yet I saw that she felt home/

35mm photography from OYS series/ I often walk slow, I like to wait and watch people from behind. A photo from someone’s back is a proof of his/her existence in that time and place. It says nothing more, it shows very few details about that person. Only that they are humans. In OYS, I explore stories of people you don’t see their faces in between notes