Artist of the Month
Iraj Golzari
Iraj Golzari is one of Iran’s leading ceramics artists. Golzaris spends most of his time near the historical city of Hamedan, whom many believe to be one of the ancient world’s centers of ceramics.
Lalejin (Lalajin and local name: Lalin) is one of the towns near Hamadan. According to the official data, Lalejin has approximately 14,700 inhabitants. This town is known as the center of pottery and ceramics in the Middle-East.
80 percent of Lalejin’s population are potters, ceramists and related jobs. Lalejin is one of the important centers of pottery and ceramic productions in Iran and in the world. The products of Lalejin artists are very various and include the different kinds of luxury consumption earthen wares.
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Photographers
Taking inspiration from her homeland, Sareh Khajehnouri specializes in graphic design. Born in Tehran, Iran in 1979 Sareh moved to the United States when she was 9 years old. She calls Virginia home and has a passion for Art. Having obtained her degree in Graphic Design at George Mason University, she considers the great Ostad Abbas Katouzian in Iran her mentor.
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Shadi Yousefian was born in Tehran, Iran and moved to the United States when she was sixteen. She received both her Bachelors (2003) and Masters (2006) of Fine Art in photography from San Francisco State University. In the beginning, Shadi worked in a kind of abstract expressionistic style, taking close-up shots of marks and scratches on surfaces such as walls, trash bins, and telephone booths in public places, capturing the expressions that other people had left on these surfaces.
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Mina Javid was born in Shiraz, Iran and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley, and completed her graduate studies at UCLA’s School of Architecture and Urban Design. She draws inspiration from cultures and landscapes encountered through her travels around the world. She has photographed lands and peoples in the United States, Europe, Brazil, and Iran. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Golbon currently resides in Chicago Illinois, where she is completing her B.A. at Columbia College Chicago in film and photography with a minor in theater. Her family roots stem from Shiraz and Tehran, where she was born in 1983. Missing Iran’s roadside juice stands, she has made the west coast her home for the past 19 years.
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Armand has been a photographer for more than twenty years. He began his work and continued in black and white for 3 years and then transitioned to color. Armand’s entire portfolio consists of 35mm traditional SLR images. For the last five years, Armand has been focusing his work on capturing the moments of the Caribbean Life and this exhibition features some of his finest photographs of what he calls Spontaneous Street Portraiture of Cuban faces
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Writer, photographer and television producer, Iason Athanasiadis has been covering the Middle East, Central Asia and the southeast Mediterranean since 1999. He earned degrees in Arabic and Modern Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford University (BA) as well as Persian and Contemporary Iranian Studies at Tehran’s School of International Studies (MA).
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Marjan uses an old Leica M3 camera, develops her own film and produces real, original hand-prints of quality in limited editions.
She’s been exhibiting her work across Europe in places varying from reputable galleries to hanging her bra pictures on a coatrack at the local pub in London.
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Nader Davoodi has been the Publisher of Tamashagaran Magazine for more than 10 years, and has worked with IRNA News Agency for more than eight years. He has also worked with
Raw Talent Photo Agency and World Photo Bank.
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Mansur Kiadeh has been a hobby photographer for many years. Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment, this quote from Molavi sums up what he is after in his photography. He has not found a particular vision or style yet, but has run the gamut from dark room black and white to false-color digital Infrared to see which one gives him that special kick! What interest him especially are shapes, light, shadows, moods, and strange colors that carry a story.
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“After a 20 year absence, I recently returned to Iran for the first time. The purpose of my trip was to reacquaint myself with the country in which I was born. For six-months I traveled from one corner of Iran to the other, absorbing the distinct cultures of ancient villages. Very little had changed over the centuries, and it was my goal to capture the participants of Persian culture in a natural state, with the least amount of intrusion.
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