IRAN. Khuzestan. 2018. Masoumeh Ahmadi, 14 years old, who wants to be called by the name Golbahar since Masoumeh is a very old fashion name and not very popular Among the young generation, standing in Chamsoor lands in Khuzestan Province while holding guns. It is really common among Bakhtiaris for each person to have their own guns. Each family might have 3 or 4 guns that are mostly for mens. Women can have their own gun after they get married with the approval of their husband and father. Many of them receive their gun as a gift from their husbands right after they give birth to their first son.
Masoumeh borrowed her mother’s gun occasionally.
Masoumeh couldn’t study as she had to help her mother and the family doesn’t allow her to go to school. Her mother says that we are waiting for a “customer” for our daughter, which in their language means a man who ask them to marry them and might give the family a horse or a gun in exchange.