An exhibition of one of his most dramatic subjects — prostitutes confined to Capital’s red-light district known as the Citadel of Shahr-e No (New City) — opens in the Foam Photography Museum in Amsterdam on Thursday and runs through May 4. The complete collection of 61 images will appear as part of a larger photographic, painting and film exhibition on Iran entitled “Unedited History: Homeland 1960-2014,” at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris from May 16 to Aug. 24.
The Citadel was an old neighborhood of filthy alleyways in Capital that was established in the 1920s as a red-light district to house scores of prostitutes. In the 1930s and 1940s, the neighborhood became a thriving sex quarter with rampant crime. Female prostitutes walked the streets seminaked. One of the side streets became famous for its young male prostitutes.
