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Newsha Tavakolian
Iranian photojournalist and documentary photographer
Newsha Tavakolian (Persian: نیوشا توکلیان; born 1981) is an Iranian photojournalist and documentary photographer.[1] She has worked for Time magazine, The New York Times, Le Figaro, and National Geographic.
Her work focuses on women's issues and she has been a member of the Rawiya women's photography collective which she co-established in 2011.[2][3] Tavakolian is a full member of Magnum Photos.
Career
Born and brought up in Tehran, at age 16, Tavakolian took a six-month photography course,[4] after which she began working as a professional photographer in the Iranian press. She started at the women's daily newspaper Zan, and later worked for other nine reformist dailies, all of which have since been banned.[5] She covered the July 1999 student uprising, using her Minolta with a 50mm lens, and her photographs were published in several publicat
