Abbas

Abbas is an Iranian photojournalist, he has reported on Biafra, the wars in Vietnam, the Middle East and South Africa. He is also renowned for his essays on religions. After emigrating to Algeria and then France, Abbas began his career in the late 1960s covering political and social conflicts. 
In Tehran in 1978, when the revolutionary movement began, he took an interest in demonstrations both for and against the Shah's autocratic rule. Enduringly indignant at the way in which the Iranian revolution was being hijacked by religious extremism, Abbas would, for the rest of his life, document the complex relationship between human beings and spirituality and the gods. First and foremost in monotheistic religions, but also among animists, shamans and followers of the voodoo cult in Haiti. 
Abbas, who died in 2018 at the age of 74, kept his eyes and mind wide open all his life.