Four seater motorbike. Shahr Rey, Iran, 1997 Paper size:20 x 24 in (50 x 60 cm) function as scattered clues to

function as scattered clues to a tale that is never fully explained

[and] are feared by people in villages

bustling life of India’s largest city: “Photographing people in their private spaces

mobbed by the public as he travelled through Baltimore in a motorcade

as well as a signed and numbered print (11

Four seater motorbike. Shahr Rey, Iran, 1997 Paper size:20 x 24 in (50 x 60 cm) function as scattered clues toBorn in Khash, Abbas documented the Iranian Revolution during the 1970s, bearing witness to the tumultuous events, which inspired the photographers subsequent lifes work. He left the country in 1980 and did not return for 17 years. Describing himself as a historian of the present, Abbas dedicated himself to documenting the political and social life of societies in conflict. In a career that spanned six decades, he covered wars and revolutions in