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The collection features the rituals of mourning season of Muharram in Lorestan Province, especially in Khoramabad in Iran.Ī photo from Ebrahim Noruzi's collection ' Mournful'

Noruzi also won the second prize at the Staged Portraits Stories Section for his photo collection ' Mournful'. His photographs have appeared nationally and internationally, in such publications as The New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, and have been distributed by Agence France-Presse, the Associated Press, Reuters, United Press International, and the European Press Photo Agency.

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He began working as a professional photographer in 2004, with Fars News Agency. Ebrahim Norooziīorn in 1980 in Tehran, Iran. The government and villagers have paid for some of these surgeries, sometimes selling their land to pay for more operations. Somayeh still needs hundreds of surgeries and Ra'na needs more than 70. Their faces, hands, and bodies were severely burned Somayeh lost her ability to see and Ra'ana lost one of her eyes. Then one night in June 2011, he poured a bucket of acid on his wife and child while they slept. If she followed through with plans to divorce, he threatened that she would not live her life with her face. Somayeh's husband, Amir Afghanipour, a thief and drug addict, hit her and locked her up many times. Somayeh Mehri, 29, and her three-year-old daughter Ra'na live in a small town in one of the poorest regions in Iran. Ra'na was attacked with acid by her father.įrom Ebrahim Noruzi's collection ' Victims of Forced Love' The collection depicts the aftermath of an attack in Iran, during which a man poured acid over the faces of his wife, Somayyeh Mehri, and his two daughters, Rana and Nazanin, while they were sleeping at home in a village in the southeastern city of Bam in 2012. After Blum’s death, his surviving work was included in the Spaarnestad Photo collections.A photo from Ebrahim Noruzi's collection ' Victims of Forced Love', which won the first prize of the Observed Portraits Section at the World Photo Press contest in 2013

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He took the photographs in his studio using often simply painted backgrounds, but these featured an ideal world full of joy and happiness, exactly fitting into the image the women’s magazines wished to convey at the time. In the Netherlands, he sold his pictures to women’s magazines like Libelle. Among other things, his agency devised a new type of pattern for sew-it-yourself fashion and he made photographic illustrations to go with these patterns. He sold his pictures to a great number of fashion and women’s magazines in and outside the country. In the Netherlands, he was one of the first photographers to specialize in fashion photography. After the liberation in 1945, he established himself as a studio photographer in Amsterdam. In the 1930s, after Hitler came into power, Walter Blum fled from Germany to the Netherlands, where he had to go into hiding during World War II. That was the reason why the company also bought material from photo press agencies and freelance photographers, for instance from Walter Blum (1890-1964). De Spaarnestad always needed more pictures than its own photographers could supply.

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