Projects
‘Woman! Life! Freedom!’
Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic’s “morality police”, in Tehran on September 19, 2022. – Fresh protests broke out on September 19 in Iran over the death of a young woman who had been arrested by the…
“somewhere beyond the eyelids of frightened eyes”
Lebanon 2018-2021 My great grandmother, Sito Linda, was raised just a few hundred feet from where I sit writing this today in my apartment near Sassine Square. In 1925 she and her husband, Mitchell Maalouf, from the small mountain village of Kfarakab, emigrated to Post,…
Syria
Since the war broke out in Syria in 2011, foreign interference, migration, poverty, and violence ensued on par with any action worldwide. Ten years into the conflict, which has cost over 400,000 lives and left most of the country in ruins. These images capture the daily…
Climate Crisis in Hamun Lake
Hamun Lake is the third largest (and the largest freshwater) lake in Iran. However, over the past 20 years, Hamun has completely dried up. Only in rare years with a lots of rainfall, small sections of the lake only temporarily resupply.Hamun’s regions have…
Talibanistan
Kabul fell to the Taliban on August 15th, 2021. The capital was taken over after 20 years of American control and presence. The Afghan president Ashraf Ghani transferred and stepped down, handing over the government.Suicide attacks followed on August 26th, killing 13…
Religions in Iran
The official state religion in Iran is Islam, to be specific the Shiite branch of Islam which consists of roughly more than 90% of the population. Less than 10% identify as Sunni and Sufi sects of Islam. Zoroastrianism, Christianity and Judaism are protected and…
Open Wounds
“These Photos are part of a long-term project documenting the sacrifices of Kurdish Peshmerga in the fight to put down ISIS.” The project has taken me to the provinces of Iraqi Kurdistan. Speaking with several hundred Peshmerga, taking intimate portraits of…
Iran During the Coronavirus Outbreak
The Black Plague of 2020 struck Iran like many other countries in the late winter with the first case officially reported on Feb 19th. The pandemic has brought an immediate havoc in the nation which has a unique cultural and social history of handshakes, hugs, kisses…
A City Under Dust Clouds
Ahvaz has been consistently ranked as one of the world’s worst cities for air pollution according to the World Health Organization, topping the list on numerous occasions in the past decade. Industrial sources, chief among them the refineries and other components of the…
Life In War
Since the beginning of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in 1897, and until the present day, there have been two forms of life in the Gaza Strip. There is a normal, calm life which quickly turns into chaos with the start of any Israeli escalation. The Gazans are surrounded…