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The Iranian Images That Refuse to Disappear

From erased protest footage to ultraviolet photographs, an Iranian photographer documents what remains of the Women, Life, Freedom uprising when images themselves become targets.

On the night of January 26, images began to disappear. They vanished from social networks as quickly as they had surfaced: shaky videos of women cutting their hair in the street, faces illuminated by mobile phones, bodies running through narrow alley...

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Jonas Cuénin

Jonas Cuénin works as managing director at Blind and has previously been working as editor-in-chief at the magazines L’Oeil de la Photographie and Camera.

Read More: Tehran, Anatomy of an Ordinary Crime Scene

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