And They Laughed at Me

Reflection of the Magnum photographer on her early work from Iran with many unpublished photographs

For her new book, Newsha Tavakolian has trawled through her archives not to pick her best work, but instead to dig up what she refers to as her 'eyesore' photos from the early days of her career, when, at the age of sixteen, she had started to work as a photo journalist in Tehran. "From the revisiting of these >eyesore