Men In Transit
Golnaz Shahmirzadi, born and raised in Iran, says that photography is her passion because it provides her with a means of expressing her feelings. Golnaz, like many others in the field, speaks through her visual media; her experiences and commentaries empower society with the kind of raw awareness that lifts the widespread cultural tensions actively blinding us from the beauties of a fully-immersive world. Golnaz currently specializes in portraying the fluid environment of modern culture’s gender discussion.
Her fine arts photography project “Men in Transit,” portrays Iranian refugee men aged between twenty-five and thirty-five, and defines their struggles of finding political refuge in the United States. Shahmirzadi, through her captivating use of desaturated colors, body language, and environment, demonstrates the feelings of isolation and displacement that exemplify the common identity conflict that troubles many young Iranians living abroad.