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.