A man shaves at the Setareh public bathhouse in Yazd, Iran. “Some 35 years ago, before the revolution, we had lots of customers,” says a bathhouse owner. “At 4 am, when I wanted to open the hammam, there were people already in a queue. Five people worked here and we had over 50 customers a day. But now we have three customers a day on average.”

Photograph: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP