Frederic Dufour Iranian Elections by Fred Dufour In 2008, Agence France Presse sent me to Iran for ten days to cover Iran's eighth parliamentary elections. It was my first trip abroad for AFP for this kind of event. There were already two photographers based in Tehran but my chief wanted a new eye for it.  I decided to not take the obvious pictures but to focus on the ambiance and daily life…. Iranian students have a lunch break in a park in Tehran on March 11, 2008. Iranians would vote on March 14 to choose their eighth parliament since the 1979 Islamic revolution, in an election that was expected to see conservatives tighten their grip on the chamber. Iranian men paste campaign posters to a wall in a street in Tehran on March 12, 2008. Iranian woman consults the candidates list at a polling station in Tehran on March 14, 2008. Iranian men wait before the speech of Ali Larijani, conservative candidate, during an electoral rally in Qom, Iran on March 12, 2008. Iranian people wait at a polling station inTehran on March 14, 2008. Iranian woman casts her ballot at a polling station in Tehran on March 14, 2008. Iranian people wait at a polling station inTehran on March 14, 2008. Iranian woman arrives at the meeting of Gholam-Ali Hadad-Adel, the head of the United Principalist Front in Tehran on March 11, 2008. Iranian woman waits in a taxi in Tehran on March 16, 2008. Iranian woman holds bags in Tehran on March 11, 2008. Iranian woman walks in the streets of Tehran on March 17, 2008. Iranian women walk in the street near the Hazrat Fatimah Ma'sumeh mausoleum in Qom, Iran on March 12, 2008. Iranian man prays in the streets of Qom, Iran on March 12, 2008. Iranian women are reflected in the mirror in the bazaar of Isfahan (400km south of Tehran) on March 18, 2008. Iranian woman visits Imam Mosque, in Isfahan (400km south of Tehran) on March 18, 2008. MARCH 2012 BACK ISSUE Back to current issue