Newsha Tavakolian IRAN. Khuzestan. 2018. Mahnaz Gheybpour, 41 years old, has 6 children. Her husband is Farshid Amani, 44 years old. They move between Khuzestan and Chaharmahal and Bakhtiary Province but it has been (...)
Newsha Tavakolian Left: Mehdi Ghafari, 41 Years old, Bakhtiari Folklore Singer with his colleague and friend Eydi Shams, 50 years old folklore musician smoking Shish-a in a small cafe close to their home town. They (...)
Newsha Tavakolian IRAN. Khuzestan. 2018. an Mohammad Najaf, 77 years old, has been a shepherd for 40-50 years. He has 2 daughters and 2 sons. Non of them wanted to travel with their parents and they preferred to liv (...)
Newsha Tavakolian Parisa Zamani, 20 years old trying to ride her horse. She is famous of being a great horse rider within her family. Khuzestan. Iran. 2018. Made with support from the Pulitzer Center. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos
Newsha Tavakolian Soraya Mokhtari, 7 years old, standing in a land in front of her grandparents house. Soraya and her cousins are now living with their grandparents in a house who came up to this solution which let (...)
Newsha Tavakolian IRAN. Khuzestan. 2018. Ebrahim Rostami, 45 years old born in Najaf Abad, Isfahan Province has a 1year old daughter and living a nomadic life. “Nomadic life is great but I can’t see anything positi (...)
Newsha Tavakolian IRAN. Piere-Cary Village, Khuzestan. 2018. Massive waterfall after the dusty storm and rain in Pier-Cary village, on the way to Shoushtar town, Khuzestan province. Water is combined with dust and m (...)
Newsha Tavakolian Shirin Khodadadi, 26 years old sitting with her son by the fire making tea. Khodadadi family spent the night by the road where the driver, they’ve paid to bring them to Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari pr (...)
Newsha Tavakolian Pier-Cary village on the way to Shoushtar City. The residents used to have a nomadic life but after time they decided to live in a house and stay. The rain was the first one there after almost 20 y (...)
Newsha Tavakolian Marzieh Seyfouri, 8 years old and her family just arrived from Khuzestan province to Zardkouh lands to find grass and water to feed their flock. She doesn’t like their tent and she loves to go to s (...)
Newsha Tavakolian IRAN. Zardkuh, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari. 2018. A view of Zardkouh mountain, the highest peak in the Zagros mountains. Taraz road which is the main road of Bakhtiaris seasonal journey between Khuze (...)
Newsha Tavakolian Portrait of Esmaiel Karimi, 12 years old left and his brother Gholamreza, 14 years old holding their baby goats in Zardkouh mountain, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province where they live in summers. (...)
Newsha Tavakolian Pari Karimi, 48 years old milking the cows. She loves to live in a town but after her husband’s decision they are still living in a tent with their son and his bride. In nomads families men decide (...)
Newsha Tavakolian IRAN. Sikvand Village, Khuzestan. 2018. Sikvand Village, close to Lali town, Khuzestan Province. As the province is facing a really hard and serious drought shepherds has to move their flock in sea (...)
Newsha Tavakolian A man (Ali Hemmat Badri) standing at the top of Kouhrang fountain, which helps supply cities like Isfahan, Shahrekurd and Yazd with water. Since the era of Shah Abbas l, attempts have been made to (...)
Newsha Tavakolian IRAN. Khuzestan. 2018. The view of Chamsoor Lands, Khuzestan Province, used to be one of the main roads for Bakhtiari nomads to move but now due to drought and lack of grasslands the nomadic famili (...)
Newsha Tavakolian Girls on their way to Bibi Maryam Boarding school in Sardasht city. They spend almost 2 hours on the way from their house in villages to the school. Most of their families are nomads who decided to (...)
Newsha Tavakolian Zamani Family spending the night on the way to Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province. Bakhtiari families stop by a river and close to grasslands to spend the night on the moving. They are using techno (...)
Newsha Tavakolian A flock gathering on a heel close to theirs owner and shepherd to rest for the night. Dogs will take care of them during the night. Thief and wolf are the main dangers for them on the moving way. B (...)
Newsha Tavakolian Shahpari Mohammadi, 53 years old, smoking a cigarette. I am suffering from many sorrows in my life, that’s why I’m thinner than many other Bakhtiari women. My life is a tragedy. I lost my brother i (...)
Newsha Tavakolian Pier-Cary village on the way to Shoushtar City. The residents used to have a nomadic life but after time they decided to live in a house and stay. The rain was the first one there after almost 20 y (...)
Newsha Tavakolian Ali Hasan Darvishi, 40 years old standing with his wife Ghashang DArvishi, 37 years old and their children in front of their tent. They are cousins who fell in love with each other. Zardkuh, Chahar (...)
Newsha Tavakolian IRAN. Piere-Cary Village, Khuzestan. 2018. Tahmasb Rahmani, 34 years old is a single shepherd who is feeding his flock illegally as he couldn’t find any grassland around. He is thinking to sell his (...)
Newsha Tavakolian Masoumeh Ahmadi, 14 years old, who wants to be called by the name Golbahar since Masoumeh is a very old fashion name and not very popular Among the young generation, standing in Chamsoor lands in K (...)
Newsha Tavakolian IRAN. Khuzestan. 2018. Chamsoor Lands close Lali’s fault in Khuzestan province in southwest of Iran with the oldest history, it is often reffered to as the “birth place of the nation”. Khuzestan ha (...)
Newsha Tavakolian Nistar Mokhtari, 66 years old in a Bakhtiari tent they set up in their village house in Khajeh Abad, Khuzestan Province. The couple decided to stay in a house to help their grandchildren to go to s (...)
Newsha Tavakolian Right: Parisa Zamani, 20 years old with her husband’s niece Nastaran, 12 years old(Left). They are looking at a video on a Mobile phone. Khuzestan. Iran. 2018. Made with support from the Pulitzer C (...)
Newsha Tavakolian Parisa Mohammadi, 10 years old,Pooran Mohammadi, 15 years old, Parijan Mohammadi, 18 years old and Zahra Mohammadi, 20 years old watching their Uncle’s wife Fatemeh Mohammadi, 28 years old making a (...)
Newsha Tavakolian Fatemeh Ghafari, 40 years old standing in front of a curtain which divide a room in her house with her husband, Mehdi Ghafari,41 years old, a folklore singer who mostly plays at Bakhtiari wedding a (...)
Newsha Tavakolian Donkeys having a rest after a long ride from Khuzestan to Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province. Bakhtiari Nomads pack and move most of their stuff on the donkeys and use them for transportation. Khuz (...)
Newsha Tavakolian Mokhtari Family in their house in Khajeh Abad village, Khuzestan Province. 11 kids are now living with their grandparents in a house who came up to this solution which let the grandchildren to stud (...)
