Four seater motorbike. Shahr Rey, Iran, 1997 Paper size:20 x 24 in (50 x 60 cm) [and] are feared by people

[and] are feared by people in villages

she received the National Book Award for In China and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Magazine Photographers

Parr captures a particularly British form of leisure—undaunted

mobbed by the public as he travelled through Baltimore in a motorcade

Four seater motorbike. Shahr Rey, Iran, 1997 Paper size:20 x 24 in (50 x 60 cm) [and] are feared by peopleBorn in Khash, Abbas documented the Iranian Revolution during the 1970s, bearing witness to the tumultuous events, which inspired the photographers subsequent lifes work. He left the country in 1980 and did not return for 17 years. Describing himself as a historian of the present, Abbas dedicated himself to documenting the political and social life of societies in conflict. In a career that spanned six decades, he covered wars and revolutions in