Shirin Abedi

Photojournalist

www.shirinabedi.com

Charchoub (2016)

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Location: Hannover, Germany

Nationality: German, Iranian

Biography: Shirin Abedi was born in Tehran in 1996 and emigrated to Germany at the age of seven. Since then, she has lived in parallel in two cultures. Her interest in photojournalism grew during her early adolescence and after taking her first photography... MORE

Iran was my entrance to the world, Germany showed me how to live. While growing up parallel in two cultures, I learned a lot and became multicultural. But the price for that was an unstability of my knowledge about myself and being lost. In my last teenage year, I studied more conscious my family and my definition of womanhood, to find out my own values and understand more what I agree or disagree with in the cultures that I got known to. I had to find a frame from which I could break out afterwards. This frame is my root, which is neccessary for my growth.

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Charchoub (2016)

Copyright Shirin Abedi 2024

Updated Feb 2021

Topics Adolescence, Documentary, Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture

Iran was my entrance to the world, Germany showed me how to live. While growing up parallel in two cultures, I learned a lot and became multicultural. But the price for that was an unstability of my knowledge about myself and being lost. In my last teenage year, I studied more conscious my family and my definition of womanhood, to find out my own values and understand more what I agree or disagree with in the cultures that I got known to.
So I had to find a frame from which I could break out afterwards. This frame is my root, which is neccessary for my growth.