General News, 2nd prize
Reza
Sipa Press
Sipa Press
01 January, 1983
During the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Mahmat Gol reads the Koran, seated on a bed in the middle of the mountains at the Afghan-Pakistani border.
Reza
Reza is a philanthropist, idealist, humanist, architect, multimedia artist and photojournalist, primarily for National Geographic. He has traveled the world over the last 30 year...
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