Thinking of #iran and #mahsaamini and all the amazing desire for change I experienced in Teheran at the hight of the Green Movement in 2009. Here from “Walk on my Eyes” the project I did with @serge.michel2. Maryam, 33 (on the left), a single mother and painter, teaches art and art history at a high school in Tehran. All her students are girls aged fourteen to eighteen. ‘Girls today are cleverer than in my generation,’ she says. ‘They know what they want and they demand their rights.’ She lets her students remove their headscarves in class and pushes the boundaries of the Islamic dress code for her live classes. ‘In most classes, models have to wear a headscarf and manteau (a sort of house coat). I let them pose in a t-shirt and trousers. I got in a bit of trouble for it.’ Pictured here with her mother, Maryam is part of a close family. ‘I have six brothers and sisters. When my father died my brothers took over his hardware store. We spend all our free time together at my mother’s house. It’s good but it can get claustrophobic.’