Latest news with #NewshaTavakolian
The Guardian
08-04-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
No Iconic Images: visualising wars around the world
Rescue workers at a mass grave in a forest on the outskirts of Izium, eastern Ukraine, where hundred of graves were found in September 2022 Photograph: Alessio Mamo/The Guardian A group of Afghan female prosecutors stand on a rooftop overlooking Islamabad, Pakistan, in September 2022 as they wait for their asylum requests to be addressed after fleeing Afghanistan fearing persecution by the Taliban government Photograph: Reuters Armoured vehicles from France's Operation Barkhane patrol the streets before the handover ceremony of a military base to the Malian army in Timbuktu. The last soldiers of the operation left Mali on 15 August 2022 Photograph: Florent Vergnes/AFP/Getty Images A plume of smoke rises in Gaza City during an Israeli airstrike on 9 October 2023 Photograph: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images Soviet prisoners of war cover victims' bodies with earth from the banks of a ravine in Kyiv on 1 October 1941, resulting in changes to the topography. The photograph forms part of the work by the Centre for Spatial Technologies and Forensic Architecture on the Russian strike on the Kyiv TV tower in 2022, which uncovers layers of historical violence beneath the surface of war events Photograph: Johannes Hähle/The Centre for Spatial Technologies & Forensic Architecture Rebel soldiers at an outpost in Camp Victoria, the headquarters of the Chin National Army, an alliance of ethnic rebel groups fighting the junta in the Chin province of Myanmar, in December 2023 Photograph: Aakash Hassan/The Observer Armenian refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh wait in the centre of the town of Goris on 30 September 2023 before being evacuated to various Armenian cities. Armenia says 100,417 people from an estimated population of 120,000 had fled Nagorno-Karabakh since the breakaway region saw its decades-long fight against Azerbaijani rule end in sudden defeat Photograph: Diego Herrera Carcedo/AFP/Getty Images Raymond and his sons. Darien, Wisconsin, US, 2007. The Magnum photographers Peter van Agtmael and Newsha Tavakolian's projects show how war permeates society, reshaping everyday life and social roles and demonstrating that war is never limited to the battlefield Photograph: Peter van Agtmael/Magnum Photos Every day the Democratic Union party of Syria, an affiliate of Kurdistan Workers' party, gathers young people from the Rojava area and teaches them its ideology at the Institute for Young Revolutionaries in Terbespe. Many of these teenagers will soon be drafted into YPJ and YPG armies Photograph: Newsha Tavakolian/Magnum Photos Demonstrators run past tyres set on fire during a protest against insecurity in Port-au-Prince in Haiti on 7 August 2023 Photograph: Odelyn Joseph/AP Prince Badr bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia receives the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, in Jeddah on the eve of the Arab League summit in May 2023 Photograph: Syrian Presidency Facebook/AFP/Getty Images Security forces patrol a street after the Ethiopian army took control of the town of Hayk in Amhara from the rebel Tigray People's Liberation Front on 16 December 2021 Photograph: Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Members of the Colombian political party Union Patriotica attend a ceremony at the Centro de Memoria Historica in Bogotá on 30 January 2023. The Inter-American court of human rights condemned the Colombian state for the 'extermination' of the Union Patriotica party in which almost 6,000 members and supporters became victims Photograph: Mauricio Dueñas Castañeda/EPA Ukrainian emergency responders evacuate injured, pregnant Iryna Kalinina, 32, from a maternity hospital damaged by a Russian airstrike in Mariupol on 9 March 2022. Her baby was stillborn, and Iryna died half an hour later. Published on page 1 of the Guardian the following day 'We have to make considered decisions about what to publish of a graphic nature because it's important that the image engages the reader in the story rather than making them turn away. At the same time we don't want to censor or patronise our readers by not being truthful about the reality.' Fiona Shields, Guardian director of photography and contributing curator Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP
The Guardian
02-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
The big picture: Newsha Tavakolian spotlights the Iranian singers silenced by Islamic law
The Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian began her career as a photojournalist but, one after another, the publications in which her pictures appeared in Tehran were banned. In 2002, she switched her focus from news to art, though the boundaries between the two are porous. She took this photograph in 2011 as part of a project that featured professional Iranian female singers who, since the 1979 revolution, had been banned from performing or recording solo because of the regime's interpretation of Islamic law. Tavakolian made images of the singers as if they were in recording studios, mouthing their words or, as she described it, 'performing in their mind in front of a large audience'; she also made imaginary album covers, like this one, for her muted divas. 'For me,' she said, 'a woman's voice represents a power that if you silence it, imbalances society, and makes everything deform. I let Iranian women singers perform through my camera while the world has never heard them.' The project was called Listen. The ban on solo singing is still in place. Tavakolian's image is included in a new exhibition of images from the Magnum agency devoted to Women Power. Some of the photos were taken by pioneering female photographers (Inge Morath, Eve Arnold), and others by men (Robert Capa, Elliott Erwitt) 'who have been able to narrate the female condition'. The Magnum agency itself was not always synonymous with feminism. I remember once asking Arnold how she had been treated as a young woman among those alpha male war photographers. 'I was patted on the head by them, of course,' she said, '[Inge and I] both had problems with all these difficult men. But I recently had my 90th birthday and I've been getting all kinds of faxes telling me what fun we had… So I guess we must have done…' Women Power is at Villa Bassi Rathgeb Museum, Abano Terme, Italy from 22 March to 21 September
