Mohsen Rastani

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Mohsen Rastani (born 6 January 1958) is an Iranian photographer and photojournalist. He mainly makes photographs of people on a black-and-white basis with a white background.

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Career

Rastani was born on 6 January 1958 [1] in Khorramshahr. He returned to the city in 1982 shortly after the Liberation of Khorramshahr in the Iran–Iraq War. [2] Rastani returned from Tehran, where he was studying for the entrance exams to the Faculty of Fine Arts. [2] At that point he started photography. [3]

He earned in B.A. in photography at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Tehran in 1987. [3] He has lectured at the same institute as well. [4]

Works

Rastani typically photographs people on a white background in black-and-white. [5] He has said it is difficult to exhibit his works in Iran due to people posing for his photos in outfits they wear at home. [2] [3] His work, amongst others, has covered the Iran–Iraq War, the Lebanese Civil War in the late 1980s and the Bosnian War in the 1990s. [2] They have amongst others been exhibited at the MAXXI in Rome, Italy. [3]

Rastani was one of the four Iranian artists elected to represent the country at the International Art Exhibition of the 2011 Venice Biennale.[ citation needed ]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 Arjen Ribbens (28 January 2015). "'Met mijn foto's open ik het raam naar vriendschap'" (in Dutch). NRC Handelsblad.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Daniël Bertina (13 January 2015). "We dronken koffie met de ongekroonde koning van de Iraanse oorlogsfotografie" (in Dutch). Cultureel Persbureau. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
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