Newsha Tavakolian: A Voice of Iranian Women Born in Tehran, Iran, in 1981, Newsha Tavakolian’s journey as a photographer is inextricably linked to the complexities and contradictions of modern Iran. Initially trained at sixteen through a six-month course, she swiftly transitioned from assisting in a daily newspaper to becoming a prominent photojournalist, navigating a landscape where artistic expression often clashed with political constraints. Her early career was marked by working for nine reformist dailies – publications that would later be banned under increasingly restrictive regimes –…