Road of love – Mansoreh Motamedi

Mansoreh Motamedi is a Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina-based photographer born in Tehran, Iran. She has been working as a photographer since 1997, making documentary photographs throughout the world, including Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, KSA, Turkey, and now, Bosnia.

Iran –

The seven-year Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) killed thousands of Iranians. Many bodies of the martyrs back. But it still has not returned after many years of other martyrs. Or unknown turn into martyrs were buried. Mothers and wives of martyrs will go to the cemetery to visit the graves of martyrs weekend.

Martyr in Islam is very sacred and respected by many people to the martyrs and their families remained. Families of martyrs, martyr Photo Frame hold in their homes because the only memorial of martyrs, pictures of them. Also, pictures of martyrs are painted on city walls.

Also Every year hundreds of thousand Iranians visit the fronts of the Iran-Iraq war  1980-1988).During there new year (Noruz) holiday. The pilgrims travel there from all over the country to  Visit the places where their relatives died. Iran lost over half a million soldiers during the 8 years war.

Photography Written and photographed by: Mansoreh Motamedi

Related Posts

Francois Hebel : The Arles Aesthetic

France –  Francois Hebel, one of the most influential man in photography today boasts of a prolific career, spanning 12 ...

Boris Eldagsen: The Poems

Germany –  Boris Eldagsen‘s Photography explore the limits of what can be depicted. The ‘POEMS’ utilise the external reality, to ...

Sanne De Wilde: The Dwarf Empire

China – 小人国 在中国云南、在昆明美丽的滇池湖边、在一片原始森林里,有一个由上百矮人族群组成的梦幻国度—它就是世界蝴蝶生态园·“小人国”。这里的小矮人们勤劳、善良、多才多艺、英勇无畏。他们拥有自己的国度,拥有自己的国王、自己的军队、外交部、御膳厨房和臣民 “In the Chinese province Yunnan, close to the beautiful Dianchi lake, exists a magic land in ...

First Photobook Award Winner: Hidden Islam

France –  The entry to this years’s Award were rifle with gatefolds and Hidden Islam uses this device on every ...

Ismail Zaidy: A Rooftop Photographer from Morocco

Ismail Zaidy is a self‑taught Moroccan photographer who turned the rooftop of his family home in Marrakech into Studio Sa3ada, ...

Asim Rafiqui : Bagram – The Other Guantanamo

Pakistan – They are ghosts, and I have spent nearly two months trying to find any evidence of them. They ...

Erik Kessels: “Photography is definitely not dead. Quite the opposite: the overwhelming abundance of images forces artists to think differently”

Erik Kessels, renowned Dutch artist and curator, discusses the dynamic evolution of photography in the digital age. He asserts that ...

Black Tsunami – James Whitlow Delano

Japan – James Whitlow Delano is an American photojournalist who has lived in Japan for nearly 20 years. He has ...

Daisuke Yokota: Vertigo

Japan –   In 2011, his self published artist book “Back Yard” had great feedback and dramatic diffusion. Start by ...

Ed Kashi: Four Decades of Witnessing Humanity Through Photography

For more than four decades, Ed Kashi has documented some of the world’s defining human, environmental and social crises through ...

You Get Me – Mahtab Hussain

England – You Get Me is a series that has taken four years to complete and addresses the changing identity ...

Poulomi Basu: “A Ritual of Exile” – Exposing Women Condition in Nepal

Nepal –  “It’s dark, and there is no light. I feel so scared someone might come.” Radha is only 16 ...