From the series of videos produced by The New Yorker of cities all over the world during the COVID-19 quarantine, we have chosen to publish in TRANSFER NEXT the personal vision of Tehran by Hashem Shakeri. His short film explores Tehran from north to south, showing the special atmosphere of the city in lockdown and relating the emptiness of emblematic and usually crowded spaces, like the Grand Bazar and the Chamran Expressway, alongside the intimacy of a collection of personal daily life scenes. In his vision of Tehran during the health crisis, Shakeri uses the personal narrative and visual language that characterize his photographic work, depicting environmental and social crises in the contemporary world. Through an attentive look at the changes in the city and its daily life, Shakeri discreetly introduces himself, and us, into the intimacy of a closed city and its bewildered inhabitants, revealing different signs of the life that continues apparently unnoticed, almost suspended, but ever present.
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Hashem Shakeri
