Newsha Tavakolian an Iranian photojournalist and documentary photographer
Newsha's Hajj dress hanging in her Tehran apartmentNT: One of the special things about Hajj is the dress. Everybody wears the same dress, all in white. The idea is that everyone is the same in front of god, it doesn’t matter where you came from or if you’re poor, rich, black, white, or yellow, you all look the same in the same dress. That was why I took the opening picture of my ironing board and the Hajj dress;