After the Iranian Revolution, in 1979, the theocracy lowered the marriage age to nine for girls and fourteen for boys; it legalized polygamy and raised the price of birth control. The population surged, creating a housing shortage in Tehran. The government responded to the housing shortage by building satellite towns of sterile high-rises on barren land far from the capital. Hashem Shakeri began taking photographs of these ghostly settlements in 2016.
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