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    'My Iran' — A Show Of Photography And Video By 6 Women — Contrasts Memory And Reality

    Photographs and video created by six Iranian women are now on view at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C.
    by Jackson Sinnenberg Nov 29, 2019 4 minutes
    <em>Somayeh,</em> from Blank Pages of an Iranian Photo Album.

    What or where is home? Is it a place or a people, a feeling or a memory, a reality or a fantasy?

    Those questions are at the heart of My Iran: Six Women Photographers, an exhibition on display at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C., through Feb. 9, 2020. All the photos were collected separately by the Sackler Gallery, one of the Smithsonian Institution's Asian art museums, and came together only for this showing. Much of the photographers' work has been displayed previously in Europe but rarely in the United States.

    showcases the works of six female Iranian photographers — , , , , and — and their attempts to express the

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