- Polaroid X Magnum , Paris Photo, France
- Close Enough, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
- Newsha Tavakolian curates Breda Photo
- "For the Sake of Calmness" shortlisted in the Rotterdam Film Festival
- Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 2, IFFR 2021, NL
- https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/photography/2020/03/it-was-scary-movie-streets-of-iran-coronavirus-has-forced-photographer-take
- TIME's Best Photojournalism of 2020
- https://www.apollo-magazine.com/life-during-wartime/
- https://time.com/longform/isis-child-soldiers-yezidi/
- https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-10-iranian-artists-shaping-contemporary-art
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/viewing-iran-and-its-complexities-through-eyes-visual-artists-180973209/
- https://www.magnumphotos.com/theory-and-practice/newsha-tavakolian-patience-portraiture/
- https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/10/iran-nomad-tribes-fading-away/
- Iran’s Tarnished Gem, NatGeo
- VACATION IN IRAN, The New Yorker
- See Iran Coming Out of the Shadows
- In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in
- Iranian Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- What next for the millions uprooted by Boko Haram? – photo essay, The Guardian
Through Story, a Look into Iran: Newsha Tavakolian's Portraiture, TIME
- L’Iran invisibile di Newsha Tavakolian, Internazionale
- Keeping True to an Iranian Vision, Minus Big Money, The New York Times
- Newsha Tavakolian's best photograph: woman on a mountainside outside Tehran, The Guardian
Removed images: Photographer 'deeply disappointed', The Straits Times
- On Assignment: Covering Tehran, The New York Times
- Pictures From The Times to Make You Face ‘Hard Truths’
- The Voyages Issue, The New York Times Magazine
- Running from Exile - A Story of the Olympic Refugee Running Team, MSNBC in Partnership with Magnum Photos
- Newsha Tavakolian was shortlisted for the BMW Art Journey 2016
- Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2016 announces Best Photography Book Shortlist
- The Iranian photojournalist talks about working in war zones and exhibiting at art fairs, 2016 Art Basel Hong Kong
- 2016 Picture of the Year Award, First Place Feature Story: Iran Coming Out of the Shadows for Time Magazine
- 2015 Principal Prince Claus Award Goes to Newsha Tavakolian
- Art Agenda: Newsha Tavakolian I know why the rebel sings
- Time: Photographer Newsha Tavakolian takes us through the looking glass
- Time: Meet the Women Taking the Battle to ISIS
- Tavakolian's BLANK PAGES selected by Time LightBox editor Olivier Laurent as one the best Photobooks of 2015
- Yahoo News on Tavakolian's Prize: Iran photographer to share prize money with Syria refugees
- The Guardian: Newsha Tavakolian's best photograph: woman on a mountainside outside Tehran
- British Journal of Photography article on Newsha Tavakolian's BLANK PAGES
- BLANK PAGES exhibited at Saatchi Gallery
- FREE FALLING IN SAMBURU: The Journey to a Safehouse
- Newsha Tavakolian produces collaborative book with WISE Initiative
- A Thousand Words for a Picture That I Never Took
- New York Times: Stress and Hope In Tehran
- New York Times: Keeping True to an Iranian
- Vision, Minus Big Money
- Tavakolian wins the Carmignac Photo Journalism Award 2013
- Exhibition at Somerset House from April 10 - 1 June
- Member of the 2014 World Press Photo competition jury
- Newsha has been commissioned by the Qatar Foundation to travel around the world for the next 3 months taking photos for a book about education and technology to be published in March 2014 on behalf of WISE
- Upcoming solo exhibition of four pieces of Newsha's series from “Listen” and “The Day I Became a Woman” showing at LACMA from July 29th-December 15th
- "She Who Tells a Story" - introducing the work of Newsha Tavakolian and eleven other photographers from Iran and the Arab World at Museum of Fine Arts Boston from August 27th 2012 - January 12th 2014
- A Show of Strength by Middle Eastern Women Photographers
- She Who Tells a Story: Female lens on Iran and the Arab world
- A Burqa’s Eye View, a brave statement from the Middle East’s female photographers
- The Lonely “Look” of Iranian Photographer Newsha Tavakolian
- Newsha Tavakolian's "Look" Series: Photos Of A Young Iran
- Through Story, a Look into Iran: Newsha Tavakolian’s Portraiture
- A Nation Eager to Be Heard: Iran by Newsha Tavakolian
- On Assignment: Covering Tehran
- Newsha Tavakolian, from the series 'Mothers of Martyrs'
- Newsha Tavakolian: Trying to Unfold Layers and Delve Deeper
EDUCATION:
Upcoming Workshops:
- Previous Workshops:
- 7 August -11 August 2018 Tokyo Workshop: Finding Emotion in Narrative with Susan Meiselas & Newsha Tavakolian
- 26 October - 28 October 2016 Documentary Photography Workshop, Tabriz, Iran
- 24 November - 25 November 2016 Social Documentary Photography Workshop, Ahwaz, Iran
- 3 December - 11 December 2016 12th Angkor Photo Festival, Siem Reap, Cambodia