Space Between is a photographic project that emerges from a deep engagement with memory, identity, belonging, and emotional distance. Its point of departure lies in the personal experience of migration, loss, and the search for home. The series was created between 2020 and 2025 during several journeys through the south of Iran, reflecting both external spaces and inner landscapes.

Over the course of the work, it became clear that home is not merely a geographical location but a complex weave of memories, cultural markers, and social relationships. Belonging is less tied to place and instead arises through encounters, rituals, and social grounding. The photographic images are conceived as fragments that, in sequence, form an open mesh. Analog and digital photographs, landscapes, interiors, portraits, and still lifes are placed side by side to create a field of tension between closeness and absence, presence and memory.

Particular attention is given to the role of nostalgia and memory. Here, nostalgia is not understood as a return to the past, but as a reflective attitude an awareness of distance that simultaneously generates closeness, warmth, and melancholy (cf. Boym, 2001). The deliberate interplay between analog and digital photography further mirrors the oscillation between the familiar and the new, between material trace and digital ephemerality.

The work is not a linear narrative but an open resonance space that addresses personal as well as collective experiences of loss, longing, and belonging. Empty spaces, portraits, and still lifes express the ambivalence between intimacy and distance, past and present. Space Between  invites viewers to reflect their own memories and emotions within the images and opens a dialogue about the complex experience of home and belonging.