Mohsen Rastani

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.

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.

References
  1. "Mohsen Rastani". Qoqnoos. Archived from the original on 22 June 2013.
  2. Arjen Ribbens (28 January 2015). "'Met mijn foto's open ik het raam naar vriendschap'" (in Dutch). NRC Handelsblad.
  3. Daniël Bertina (13 January 2015). "We dronken koffie met de ongekroonde koning van de Iraanse oorlogsfotografie" (in Dutch). Cultureel Persbureau. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  4. "Mohsen Rastani". Silk Road Art Gallery. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  5. "Iranian Family Portraits". The Paris Review. Fall 2008. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
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