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Christopher Thornton

Author, Essayist, Screenwriter, Photographer, and Lecturer

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PUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPHY

 

Iran in Pictures: A Photographic Insight. Rome: Europe Books, 2022.

Iran 48 photos to accompany article, “When the Hub of Civilization Becomes a Ghost Town: Letter from Istanbul,” Scarlet Leaf Review, January 2021.

32 photos included in a photo section published with Descendants of Cyrus: Travels in Everyday Iran, University of Nebraska Press, November 2019.

Photo to accompany article, “Letter from Dhaka: Where Three Wheels Brighten the Road,” Confrontation Online, posted February 2017.

Photo to accompany article, “Of Crosses and Minarets: Letter from Iran,” Commonweal, January 2016.

Photo to accompany article, “Letter from Lalibela: Cradle of Christianity,” Confrontation Online, January 2016.

Photo to accompany article, “To Live and Let Live: Letter from Nepal,” Commonweal, June 9, 2014.

Photo to accompany article, “The Lesson of Connaught Place: Letter from New Delhi,” Confrontation Online, February 2014.

Photo to accompany article, “The Illusion of Security—and the False Security of Illusion,” Confrontation Online, posted May 2013. 

Photo to accompany article, “The View from Vali Asr,” Confrontation Online, March 2013.         

Photo to accompany article, “Letter from Lisbon: West Meets East,” Confrontation Online, February 2013.                                                                                                                  Photo essay, “The Iran You Don’t See on TV,” Atlantic Online, June 6, 2012. 

Photo to accompany article, “The Persian Version,” Commonweal, March 4, 2012. 

Photo to accompany article, “Letter from Moldova,” Commonweal, October 25, 2011.                 

Photo to accompany article, “Night Dreams in Esfahan,” Commonweal, June 18, 2011.                

Cover photo and 10 interior photos to accompany article, “Letter from Tehran,” Michigan Quarterly Review, winter 2010.

Cover photo to accompany article, “Letter from Cairo,” Michigan Quarterly Review, fall 2008.

Photo to accompany article, ““Let Your Fingers Do the Painting Like the Yellow Races,” My Life, My Way, Tokyo, Japan, June 1998.

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