Persia in Portraits: Antoin Sevruguin’s Fascinating 19th-Century Photographs

Few photographers have captured the soul of a civilization at the precise moment it began to change. Antoin Sevruguin was one of them, an artist whose lens bore witness to the twilight of an ancient empire and the quiet upheaval of modernity pressing against its gates. Born in 1830 into a diplomat family at the […]