Public Project
The unfinished war
Copyright Fatemeh Behboudi 2025
Updated Aug 2025
Location Iran-Tehran
Topics Spotlight
Fatemeh Behboudi (b. 1985, Tehran) is an Iranian photographer whose work gives voice to grief, memory, and resilience. In Mothers of Patience and The Unfinished War, she documents families — especially mothers — still waiting for the return of their sons lost in the Iran–Iraq War. With quiet intimacy, her photographs honor absence as much as presence, reminding us that war does not end when the fighting stops. Through her lens, mourning becomes testimony and reflection. Her work is a poignant reminder of photography’s power to hold space for dignity, memory, and love.— Adriana Teresa Letorney
489

Also by Fatemeh Behboudi —

Project

A letter to Leila

Fatemeh Behboudi
Project

Lost house

Fatemeh Behboudi
Project

Print Sales

Fatemeh Behboudi
Project

One moment

Fatemeh Behboudi
Project

THE WAR IS STILL ALIVE

Fatemeh Behboudi
Project

PORTFOLIO

Fatemeh Behboudi
Project

Little fears

Fatemeh Behboudi
Project

fasting of silence

Fatemeh Behboudi
Project

TURKMEN BRIDES

Fatemeh Behboudi
Project

Lost Memories

Fatemeh Behboudi
Project

Life after shock

Fatemeh Behboudi
Project

This city has no heroes

Fatemeh Behboudi
Project

When the flood swept our homes

Fatemeh Behboudi
Project

Mourning for Hussein

Fatemeh Behboudi / iran
Project

Great Farewell

Fatemeh Behboudi / Tehran
Project

The last Fire

Fatemeh behboudi / Tehran
Project

Martyr is alive

Fatemeh behboudi / Tehran
Project

Myanmar-Transition to Future

Fatemeh Behboudi
Project

Mothers of Patience

Fatemeh behboudi
The unfinished war by Fatemeh Behboudi
Sign-up for
For more access