Moises Saman Tamil land owners return to their transformed land years after the Sri Lankan Army confiscated their homes and fields land after the end of the civil war in 2009. Keppapulavu, Sri Lanka. January, 2 (...)
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Newsha Tavakolian Masoumeh Ahmadi, 14 years old, who wants to be called by the name Golbahar since Masoumeh is a very old-fashioned name and not very popular among the young generation, standing in Chamsoor lands in (...)
Khuzestan Province while holding guns. It is really common among Bakhtiaris for each person to have their own guns. Each family might have three or four guns that are mostly for men. Women can have their own gun after they get married with the approval of their husband and father. Many of them receive their gun as a gift from their husbands right after they give birth to their first son. Masoumeh borrowed her mother’s gun occasionally. Masoumeh couldn’t study as she had to help her mother and the family doesn’t allow her to go to school. Her mother says that they are waiting for a “customer” for her daughter, which in their language means a man who asked them to marry them and might give the family a horse or a gun in exchange. Khuzestan, Iran. 2018. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos
Newsha Tavakolian Shirin Khodadadi, 26, sitting with her son by the fire making tea. The Khodadadi family spent the night by the road where the driver, who they’d paid to bring them to Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari prov (...)
ince, forced them to get out of the car and he said he couldn’t drive further. They called another driver to pick them up. Zard Kuh, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari. 2018. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos