Mohammadreza Mirzaei

Mohammadreza Mirzaei (Persian: محمدرضا میرزایی‎; born 1986) is an Iranian photographer and writer. He is founding editor of Dide Magazine and was one of the jurors of International Photobook Award in 2011. His photos have been exhibited in different biennials and annuals including Bogotá Fotográfica in 2011 and Journées photographiques de Bienne in 2012.

Installation of Mohammadreza Mirzaei's Humans series at Empty Quarter Gallery

Life

Mirzaei studied graphic design at IRIB Art School and Italian Literature at Azad University in Tehran. In 2012, he moved to Philadelphia to pursue his MFA at University of Pennsylvania. He is now a Ph.D. student at the University of California Santa Barbara.

Photography

In 2006, Mirzaei did a photo series called Humans, which have been exhibited in 4 solo shows in Iran, Turkey, UAE and Russia[1] as well as in some group exhibitions in Australia and Italy. Michael Kenna has acclaimed this photo series by an essay : Mr. Mirzaei, with reserved sensibility, kindly provides us with an opportunity to quietly reflect and consider the reasons for our existence. It is a worthy subject to ponder, and this is a worthy group of photographs.[2] Mirzaei’s photographs have been also credited by his compatriot photographer Mitra Tabrizian, who admired the surreal quality and the sense of isolation in his works.[3] In 2008, his photo series Rewind won the first prize of the 3rd photo feast of Tehran’s University of Art.

In 2014, Mirzaei's new photobook "Here Comes the Sun" published by University of Pennsylvania Common Press, featuring an essay by Carlos Basualdo.[4]

Literature

In 2013, Mirzaei's book What I don't have,[5] which contains a long story and a photo series published in Italy by Edizioni del Bradipo. Mirzaei is also the translator of La Grammatica di Dio, short stories by Stefano Benni from the Italian to the Persian.

Notes
  1. The artistic face of Iran. an interview with Mohammadreza Mirzaei
  2. Michael Kenna's article on Humans Archived 2008-06-12 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Mohammadreza Mirzaei at Osservatorio Gualino | Parkingallery Projects | Tehran". Retrieved 2019-05-22.
  4. "Graduate Fine Arts | PennDesign". www.design.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
  5. "ブライトリング 時計 コピー 最安値で販売 | パテックフィリップ スーパー コピー 最安値で販売". www.lugoland.it. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
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Interviews



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