By now we're all familiar with the shtick of the insanely popular photoblog Humans of New York, yes? Brandon Stanton takes pictures of ordinary people on the street and tells their story and the internet goes wild.
After a stint in Pakistan earlier this summer, Stanton is now in Iran, where he is trying to tell the stories he wasn't able to capture during his last visit three years ago.
Several of HONY's posts deal with the struggle that average Iranians are going through as their economy — weakened by sanctions placed on the country due to Iran's nuclear program — continues to falter.
Some touch on the lives that Iranian women lead in a culture that — while in many ways still considered repressive — is changing more rapidly than outsiders may realize.
