Iranian young couple getting married in Tehran wearing face masks

Tehran - Tehran Province - Iran

I have been working with Shayan(R) as photojournalist in a photo agency since 6 years ago and we became close friend during all this time. The wedding of Shayan and his wife, Fatemeh(L), was scheduled on the first days of starting COVID-19 pandemic and was not possible for them to change the time. Those days Iranian people were so afraid of this new situation, therefore they decided to only invite only 20 of their relatives and close friends. It made me so happy that I was one of the twenty important people in Shayan's life. I was not supposed to be the photographer of this ceremony But a photojournalist always has a camera with him and is ready to take photo even as a wedding guest! In those days that people around the world were battling the COVID-19 and death, this masked couple stood in front of me and started a new life. So I took the camera out of my bag and took the Photo. Actually for me, this photo was the symbol of hope for the future, hope for happy days without the COVID-19. However, in the following days and months, the country suffered heavy deathrate and so far more than 128,000 people have been killed till now cause of this Virus in Iran. But hope is always there, now that we have access to the Vaccine, again we can imagine life without this Coronavirus.