Gone with the Madness is a documentary photography project by Sardar Farrokhi exploring post-revolutionary Iranian society — its dualities, silences, and quiet collapse. Shot across Tehran and major Iranian cities, the series juxtaposes public urban life with intimate private moments, revealing a generation caught between suppression and survival.

Developed as part of Farrokhi’s Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Media at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), the project moves between observation and confession — documenting a society suspended between resistance and exhaustion.

This project began not as a thesis, but as a broken heart in a broken country. Returning to Iran after a decade abroad, Farrokhi embedded himself inside the underground social life of Tehran — parties, smoke-filled rooms, borrowed hours of freedom — while wandering the streets by day with a wide-angle lens and no agenda but honesty.

Gone with the Madness became a photographic record of malaise: educated people with nowhere to go, private longing colliding with public fear, and a generation inheriting the emotional aftermath of failed promises and political violence.

Documentary photography series examining identity, alienation, and resistance in post-revolutionary Iran — by Toronto-based photographer and MFA graduate Sardar Farrokhi.