Iranian life

A dancing evening in Tehran. Photography: ©Patrick Ringgenberg.

Iran is not a museum, it is a living culture, an art of sharing, of welcoming, of celebrating. We love to take you to the great sites of History, we just as love to make you participate in Iranian life, here and now, to provoke encounters, to introduce you to private parties or weddings, to lead you to the heart of spiritualities or show you the avant-gardes who imagine the future: to welcome you, in other words, like a guest.

A concert in a village in Azerbaijan. Photograph: ©Patrick Ringgenberg.

The popular Tajrish Bazaar, Tehran. Photograph: ©Patrick Ringgenberg.

An improvised dance in Bandar Torkaman. Photograph: ©Patrick Ringgenberg.

Ashura vigil, in Yazd. Photograph: ©Patrick Ringgenberg.

Fin Garden, Kashan. Photograph: ©Patrick Ringgenberg.

In a wedding in Tehran. Photograph: ©Patrick Ringgenberg.

Cultural life. Cafe, gallery, Saless bookstore, Tehran. Photograph: ©Patrick Ringgenberg.

At the heart of the most important pilgrimage in Iran, in Mashhad. Photograph: ©Patrick Ringgenberg.

Life in the evening by the sea on the island of Qeshm. Photograph: ©Patrick Ringgenberg.