Newsha Tavakolian

Newsha Tavakolian (IR, 1981) began working professionally in the Iranian press at age of 16, at women’s daily newspaper ‘Zan’. At the age of 18, she was the youngest photographer to cover the 1999 student uprising. In 2002, she started working internationally, covering the war in Iraq. In 2009 Newsha covered the Presidential elections in Iran, which ended up in chaos and forced her to temporary halt her photojournalistic work. Instead she started working on projects involving a mix of social documentary photography and art.