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“When you grow up in a country with lots of upheaval, one tends to only look forward, to forget the past,” writes @newshatavakolian from her home in Tehran, Iran. “Suddenly, I was back in my childhood days, when every grown-up tried to make us forget there was a war going on.” In a new visual essay titled Dispatch From Tehran, she addresses the collective trauma of war on family life and memory, combining images from the destruction caused by Israeli bombings on the city during the recent 12-day war, and a series of old family pictures from the days of her childhood, during the Iran-Iraq war. “My entire generation hates balloons, as they might pop, don't like year-end fireworks, and we all had crooked teeth because of the stress. We would never laugh out of shame for our braces.” 🔗 Read the full essay at the link in the @magnumphotos bio. PHOTOS: (1) View from a balcony. Every night we would watch the skies trying to search out the jets and the anti aircraft flares. Tehran, Iran. July 3, 2025. (2) My mother Jila holding up my younger brother Hamidreza during a snowy day in war time. (3) The wall of my friends house, where I found an exact copy of my mom’s wartime piece of embroidery. Tehran, Iran. July 3, 2025. (4) My father and us. (5) Iranian women at the Imamzadeh Saleh Mosque in Tehran passing by the portraits of generals recently assassinated by Israel. Tehran, Iran. June 30, 2025. (6) My siblings and some family members playing on the shoreline of the Caspian Sea. We had all gone there for safety to stay out of reach of Saddam Hussein’s missiles from Iraq that were raining down on Tehran. (7) The burned out editorial room of the Voice and Vision of the Islamic Republic of Iran, or Iran’s State Television. On June 16, Israeli warplanes bombed facilities of Iran’s State TV resulting in several deaths. Tehran, Iran. June 25, 2025. © @newshatavakolian / Magnum Photos
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Love her work so much ♥️
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Speak for yourself please. Majority doesn’t have crooked teeth from the war stress but from the crimes of the Islamic regime occupying Iran, their uncalled intrusion at any time of the day and night, public executions and physical and moral harassments at school, on the streets, in the mountains, anywhere. Majority loves balloons and fireworks, look at 4Shanbeh soori’s in Iran, gigantic fires and fireworks and noise.
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War? That wasn't war. Stop making drama.
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Abbas is rolling in his grave seeing these snapshots and archival photos being labeled as a “visual essay”
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Constantly inspired by all the amazing Magnum photographers. In my photography journey, where I interview and photograph strangers on the streets of New York, I’m constantly referring to the work of the greats👏
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❤️❤️
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These images carried both the sorrow of today and the memory of yesterday.🙌
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Brilliant storytelling, read it this morning. Thank you.
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