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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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. 

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

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

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

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

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

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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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