Life, in Death
A horse, symbolizing one of the 72 horses of Imam Hussein's group, in the city of Sedeh.
Every year, for nearly 1400 years Iranians commemorate the violent death of their most loved saint, Imam Hussein. While the traditional stages of remembering his death in 680 AD. are generally the same all over the country, there are local differences. Some dress up their children as angels in his name, while others cover their heads in mud.
I traveled across the country, visiting Sedeh (near Isfahan), Khorramabad (Lorestan), and Bijaar (Kurdistan) to photograph the way they mourn.
