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Friends at the Caspian Sea posing for picture. 1998. © Newsha Tavakolian / Magnum Photos
Portrait of my sister Negin with her friends on our balcony at home in Tehran. 1996. © Newsha Tavakolian / Magnum Photos
Contact sheets of days of student protests in 1999. The first bloody student protest since the 1979 revolution. © Newsha Tavakolian / Magnum Photos
Blood on the wall of the student dormitory in Tehran. The police had attacked the student sleeping quarters earlier. 1999. © Newsha Tavakolian / Magnum Photos
My grandmother at the grave of her husband, my grandfather. © Newsha Tavakolian / Magnum Photos
A group of young people on the street. 1997. © Newsha Tavakolian / Magnum Photos
My friends at an apartment complex near the Dizin ski resort. 1996. © Newsha Tavakolian / Magnum Photos
An actress practicing a performance in the City Theatre. For the first time women were allowed to lift their arms above their body on stage. 1999. © Newsha Tavakolian / Magnum Photos
My friends in love at the shores of the Caspian Sea. They married and divorced some months later. © Newsha Tavakolian / Magnum Photos
Portrait of students who had been active in protests. They didn’t want to be recognized. 2017. © Newsha Tavakolian / Magnum Photos