Ashura - Days of mourning, Iran, September 2019


Woman painting another woman with mud, Khorramabad
Collective chanting, Khorramabad
Portrait of man with mud-caked face, Khorramabad
Meeting place for collective chanting, Khorramabad
Fathers and children, Khorramabad
Street march, Khorramabad
Women warming up by the fire, Khorramabad
Woman with mud-caked face, Khorramabad
Woman with mud bowl, Khorramabad
Children drying themselves around a fire, Khorramabad
In the mud pool, Khorramabad
Chidren drying their scarves which also protect them from the heat of the fire, Khorramabad
Bonfire, Khorramabad
Drying men around fire, Khorramabad
Portrait of drying man
Man drying the mud he bathed himself in near a fire, Khorramabad
Ashura morning, Mud pools, Khorramabad
End of performance, Tazieh, Khorramabad
Girls belonging to Imam Hussein´s household, Tazieh, Khorramabad
Warrior on Yazid´s side, Tazieh, Khorramabad
Ya Hossein chants after the performance, Tazieh, Khorramabad
Victory for Yazid´s troops
Girls dressed in white symbolising angels coming for the bodies of Imam Hussein and his dead followers
Killing of one of Yazid´s soldiers, Tazieh, Khorramabad
Tazieh overall field view, Khorramabad
Yazid´s warriors, tazieh, Khorramabad
Women from Imam Hussein´s household, Tazieh, Qom
Self-flagellation, Khorramabad
Women´s mourning day
Ashura meeting, Khorramabad
Ya Hossein! Qom
Ta´zieh: Death of Imam Hossein´s son 2, Qom
Death of Imam Hossein´s son
Interior of Chehel Astaran mosque, Qom
Self-flagellation, Qom
Green mood, Kashan
Ya Hossein! Kashan Bazaar
Conversation with god, Kashan
Kashan