Tracking down the Iran talks in Geneva
Geneva held crucial talks on Iran on Tuesday. These were covered in-depth by the international and local press. Mark Henely, a Geneva-based photographer was on the ground to document the meetings. But he told a whole other story instead. Henely spent all of Tuesday trying to document talks between Iran and the United States. This sent him – and a cohort of journalists --around Geneva in search of how to tell a story which happened behind closed doors. Rather than come back empty handed, Henely captured how difficult it is to photograph history in the making. On Tuesday, the United States and Iran began their second round of indirect talks in the Swiss city. Oman was acting as the facilitator of the talks, focused on the future Iran’s nuclear programme. American envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff wanted to obtain commitments from Iran regarding its stockpile of enriched uranium. Israel not only wanted these nuclear raw materials to be moved to another country but also any ...