Hasan Sarbakhshian

Iranian Federalism

Iranian Federalism

For many years the possibility of fragmentation in Iran has instilled fear in all those interested in the future of the country. This fear is particularly strong whenever the country’s internal state of affairs becomes fraught with disarray and disorder, and as a result, the border inhabitants face further discrimination ...
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The Estate of a Movement, the Pictures that Remained

I have not seen Iranian photography this ignored in a long time. The results of the World Press Photo competition were announced a full week ago and three of the selected photographs were taken in Tehran of events following the elections of Khordad 1388 (June 2009). One of the winners was from ...
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Three decades of Islamic Rule through the Lens of Photojournalism

  Those putting a fifth decade of life behind them and who have personally lived through the heady days of the 1979 Islamic Revolution now find themselves recounting those events to the 20- and 30-year-olds for whom this story is more akin to ancient history. For those who have witnessed the ...
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Hasan Sarbakhshian
Hasan Sarbakhshian Hassan Sarbakhshian worked as a photographer for the Associated Press in Tehran from 1999-2009. He has covered events in Iran and the region including the Iran -Iraq war, the U.S. invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. His photos has been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, Economist and many other international newspapers and magazines. He currently lives in the United States.

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