Newsha Tavakolian

ABOUT NEWSHA TAVAKOLIAN

Photographer who started doing international coverage for the Iraq war in 2002. She was the fifth laureate of the Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award in 2014 and the principle laureate of the Prince Claus Award in 2015. She has over 160,000 followers on her newshatavakolian Instagram account.

She worked professionally in the Iranian press at age of 16, at the women's daily newspaper Zan.

Her work has been featured in the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the British Museum, and the Boston Museum of Fine Art.

Her grandmother passed away in October 2016.

Shirin Neshat is another famous Iranian photographer.