Maryam

January 1, 2011
'Jahangir Razmi' a MFA in Photography 1st year Student Workshop
Took photos of Iran Revolution, also the Iran/Iraq war
The sha left
The new power killed many politicians with out a trial
Homeini came
Kurdish shot by government
Iraq attacked without warning
[He was working for a newspaper but became a war photographer because of his assignments and coverage]
Photos of modern cities that were completely destryoed
[The color photographs look more graphic than the B&W's]
After the war was over he quit
now works as a photographer in his studio in Iran

he won the Pulitzer Prize with an anonymous photo. due to the situation at the time he couldn't put his name to it. Other Photographers knew it was his work though. There is a film about it.
in the film he stated that photography during the wars 'affected his soul and body' he tells himself, 'he was doing his job' and teared up just talking about it.

Reza Deghati-also Iranian
The film was made for Aljazeera but couldn't be shown at the time and still can't I guess.
However the film was made very well and shows the investigation into who made the photograph, the circumstances behind what happened in the image, and how it won a pultizer anonymously yet the royalties of selling have gone to a photographer that isn't the real copyright holder because the magazine that printed it needed to pay someone for it, thus the one who turned it into them got the money, and then another Iranian in Germany was put to the test with a camera to see if he could have been the one who made the image. Clearly he wasn't the photographer.
This film should be made available to all but can't be.