The following photos are part of a visual anthropology project I did between 2005 and 2008. For the project,  I took pictures from and interviewed with participants in the lamentation rituals of Moharram in Iran. Every year, the lamentation rituals begin on the first day of the Islamic month of Moharram and goes on for … Continue reading The Sorrowful Carnivals of Moharram: Transgression and the Bloody Rituals of Lamentation