ABSTRACT
Newsha Tavakolian is a self-taught Iranian photographer with Magnum Photos. At eighteen, she was the youngest professional photographer to cover the 1999 Iranian student uprisings. In 2002, she began working internationally, with her coverage of the war in Iraq, and since then has worked in Yemen, Pakistan, Syria, and Lebanon, among other places of turmoil. Her photography ranges from strict reportage of politics and crisis to portraits and evocative series on socially engaged themes, including class concerns, female fighters, and the impact of sanctions on individual lives. This chapter presents an interview of Tavakolian in which she gives her opinion on violent or graphic images. In the interview, Tavakolian describes photographs, taken by her, covering some of the incidences in Iran, Iraq, and Columbia.
