Kaveh Golestan

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Kāveh Golestān
Kāveh Golestān and his sister Lili

Kāveh Golestān (1950 - April 2 , 2003), (Persian: کاوه گلستان ) was an Iranian photojournalist. He was the son of the Iranian filmmaker and writer Ebrahim Golestan and the brother of Lili Golestan,[1] translator and the owner-artistic director of the Golestan Gallery in Tehran, Iran.

Golestān was a freelance cameraman who took the first pictures after nerve gas was used in Halabja. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and subsequent events. He was killed at the age of 51,[2] as a result of stepping on a land mine in Kifri, Iraq, on April 2, 2003, while working for the BBC. He is buried in a cemetery in the east of Tehran.[3]

Kaveh was married to Hengāmeh Golestān,[4] with son Mehrak.

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