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Alfred Yaghobzadeh's photobook Les Chrétiens du monde Alfred Yaghobzadeh (in Persian: آلفرد يعقوب زاده), is an Iranian Photographer of Assyrian and Armenian descent who is noted for his war photography . Yaghobzadeh was born in Tehran , to a Christian family with an Armenian father and Assyrian mother.1His photographs in Iran during the turmoil of 1979 and during the Iran-Iraq war led to his work for the Associated Press , Gamma , and Sygma news agencies. Since 1983 Yaghobzadeh has photographed for the Sipa Press . and his photos have also appeared in Time , Newsweek , Stern , Paris Match , El Pais and GEO . Yaghobzadeh has covered armed conflicts and wars in Cuba , Uzbekistan , Afghanistan , Somalia , the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Lebanese Civil War . In Lebanon, he was wounded and taken hostage, and in Chechnya he was wounded by a tank shell. In 2006, Yaghobzadeh and French journalist Caroline Laurent were kidnapped by a Palestinian faction while they were working in Gaza on a story about the lives of Palestinian women for the French magazine Elle . Yaghobzadeh has also explored the release of repressed Christianity in Eastern Europe following the collapse of Communism. Published as Christianity around the World , Yaghobzadeh documented religious rites and rituals in 24 countries over the course of a decade. Yaghobzadeh has published three photo books: War Iran-Iraq , Faces of War and Promised Peace .2
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Yaghobzadeh was born in Tehran , to a Christian Armenian-Assyrian family. His photographs in Iran during the 1979 Iranian Revolution and during the Iran–Iraq War led to his work for the Associated Press , Gamma , and Sygma news agencies. Since 1983 Yaghobzadeh has photographed for the Sipa Press . and his photos have also appeared in Time , Newsweek , Stern , Paris Match , El País and GEO . Yaghobzadeh has covered armed conflicts and wars in Cuba , Uzbekistan , Afghanistan , Somalia , the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the Lebanese Civil War . In Lebanon, he was wounded and taken hostage, and in Chechnya he was wounded by a tank shell. In 2006, Yaghobzadeh and French journalist Caroline Laurent were kidnapped by a Palestinian faction while they were working in Gaza on a story about the lives of Palestinian women for the French magazine Elle . Yaghobzadeh has also explored the release of repressed Christianity in Eastern Europe following the collapse of communism. Published as Christianity around the World , Yaghobzadeh documented religious rites and rituals in 24 countries over the course of a decade. Yaghobzadeh has published three photo books: War Iran-Iraq , Faces of War and Promised Peace . He has also won awards from the World Press Photo and the American Overseas Press Club .Yaghobzadeh was injured while covering the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 .
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Alfred Yaghobzadeh ( ), is an Iranian photographer of Assyrian descent who is noted for his war photography .
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Iranian photographer of Assyrian descent Alfred Yaghobzadeh ( Persian : آلفرد يعقوب زاده ), is an Iranian photographer of Assyrian descent who is noted for his war photography .
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iranian photographer of assyrian and armenian descent who is noted for his war photography
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iranian photographer of assyrian descent who is noted for his war photography
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