Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran – Antoin Sevruguin
Numerous devastating incidents occurred throughout his career—the loss of more than half of his glass-plate negatives in a blast and fire in 1908, an unsuccessful attempt to diversify into cinematography in the 1910s, and the confiscation of the remainder of his negatives in the mid-1920s—yet his studio remained in operation even after his death in 1933.