Newsha Tavakolian Barkhodan Kochar, 16, from Darbasi. 2015. "I joined YPJ in 2014, because I wanted to defend my homeland. The war influenced me a lot. Before joining YPJ, whenever I asked my family about politics, (...)
Newsha Tavakolian Girls smoking in the hallway of university during a break. Teheran, Iran. 2014. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos
Newsha Tavakolian Hajji Zainami, 60, from Bama, with his 4 wives, 17 children and 42 grandchildren fled during a violent attack on their town. Hajji explained that they walked barefoot for 5 days, during which one o (...)
Newsha Tavakolian A portrait of Nazanin, standing in the dark along the Caspian coastline. Teheran, Iran. 2011. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos
Newsha Tavakolian Adnan Hossain, 35, in a repair shop in Chel Agha, adorned with a portrait of Arin Mirkan, member of YPJ, who blew herself up at an ISIS position near Kobane in October 2014. Adnan fled to Chel Agha (...)
Newsha Tavakolian Barkhodan Kochar, 16, from Darbasi. 2015. "I joined YPJ in 2014, because I wanted to defend my homeland. The war influenced me a lot. Before joining YPJ, whenever I asked my family about politics, (...)
Newsha Tavakolian Reza Manafzadeh works on a fruit-tree farm at the edge of the salt lake, where crops are irrigated by a new method—recycled factory water brought by tanker truck. “I’m so worried about my son’s fut (...)
