In the organizer's words:

Two friends, connected by wanderlust and a love of photography, who have traveled tens of thousands of kilometers together, are once again sitting next to each other on a plane. On the one hand, it's business as usual, talking shop about cameras and lenses, exchanging ideas for the next trip, the one after that and the one after that. But this time something is different, they don't share the same anticipation, thirst for adventure and positive excitement, because the images and ideas in their heads of what awaits them couldn't be more different.

Thorge is skeptical, influenced by negative headlines, nuclear conflict and war rhetoric. Meeting people and taking photographs - his great passion - will certainly be difficult in such a seemingly deeply religious, closed, anti-Western country, he thinks to himself.

Mehran is romantically transfigured, can hardly wait, has butterflies in his stomach, because he is returning to a place of longing where there was always and everywhere music and singing and where he had a happy childhood with the world's most delicious sweets.

On her now three trips through IRAN, Mehran helped Thorge to see more than the obvious and from Thorge Mehran learned not to overlook the obvious, resulting in pictures with different perceptions and from different perspectives. The two take you on a journey through an enchanting country worth seeing and experiencing and tell stories of heart-warming encounters, sincere hospitality and impressive young women and men who, despite all the adversities and disappointments, appreciate and love the history and culture of their homeland.

P.S. By the way, the "world's most delicious sweets" is not a childishly romanticized memory of Mehran. It's real and completely objective, as Thorge and he quickly agreed for once ;-)