Newsha  Tavakolian

Born in Tehran 1981

 

 

 

She has been working as a photographer For Iranian Press since she was 16.

In 2002 she started to work internationally covering Iraq , Lebanon , Saudi

Arabia , Pakistan and Yemen.

Her pictures have been published in Time magazine , Newsweek , Stern , New York Times and Le Figaro.

In 2003 she was runner up in the picture of the year award , magazine feature.

In 2006 she was selected for the World Press Photo master class.

In same year she won the National Geographic Society awar of her project of

" Women in Axis of Evil " .

In 2007 she was finalist on " Inge Morath Award "for Magnum.

Her Photojournalistic work is represented by Polarisimages.

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