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The women of Kermanshah
These photographs date to 2005, when I was working in Iran for the International Organization for Migration (IOM, a UN agency).
As I was contributing to set up the first Iraqi election after the fall of Saddam Hussein, I shot a series of portraits, some of them related to the election itself, others more private, with both Iraqi and Iranian women…
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