Silver in Portraiture/Culture / 2025 / Portraiture / Culture

• Prize
  Silver in Portraiture/Culture
• Photographer
  Mehrdad Oskouei, Iran
• Studio
  Oskouei Films Production

While taking a photo of her face, Golnaz Beigum, an 75-year-old woman, says: When I was a teenager and living in the Qashqai nomads, Zaer Aswaid, a young Arab who had come from the city of Abadan to work in the Qashqai nomads, saw me and fell in love with me. With great difficulty, he married me and brought me to "Shalhe Thawamer" in Khuzestan, Iran. I gradually fell in love with him, and in the Arab village around Abadan, where I was a stranger, I gradually learned Arabic and built a lifelong love with him. We did not have children. Now, with the death of my husband, I am alone.