Education

  • BS, Chemical Engineering, Mashhad, Iran, , 2005
  • MFA Photography, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, 2018

Teaching / Professional Experience

Harvard University, Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies , Boston, MA – Teacher Assistant, 2021-current

  • Monitoring a digital lab and facilitating printing, Photoshop and lighting demonstrations
  • Teaching all technical aspects of digital cameras

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Professional and Continuing Education, Summer Intensives, Boston, MA – Teaching Fellowship – “Online Digital Photography”, Summer 2020

  • A deep dive into understanding how to craft an image, learning to shoot on DSLR camera and post-process editing. Through virtual presentation, group critique and independent work, students develop a range of visual and technical skills using digital approch to photography.
  • Non-destructive Photoshop post-processing; Camera Raw filter, color correction,
  • Providing a very broad overview of digital photography as a unique form of the medium so as to encourage a more holistic understanding of it as both an art form and a technical craft.

Massachusetts Service Alliance, MassArt‘s Center for Art and Community Partnerships(CACP), Boston, MA – Commonwealth Corps Student and Youth Engagement Coordinator, August 2018– 2019

  • Building relationships with CACP’s partner sites. Facilitate a partnership between an undergraduate photo class and a youth community organization outside the college. contribution to class discussion to explore the issues of agency, identity and representation in portraying a community.
  • Help recruit and build relationships with a diverse student team and volunteers committed to engaging meaningfully with the wider community.
  • Making series of videos and interviews with students and their supervisors in multiple community organization including Museum of Fine Arts, Isabella Gardener Museum to support and promote PartnershipWORKS program. PartnershipWORKS is the program through which CACP hires MassArt students each Fall to work with its partners across the city in variety of positions.

Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, MA – Visiting Artist, “Beyond the Shot” workshop, Feb 2019

  • Students develop the photography, interviewing, graphic design, and layout skills they need to present work professionally.
  • Students learn non-destructive workflow of processing images in Photoshop, possible ways of incorporating text and image, InDesign skills to demonstrate idea as a photo book form.
  • Collaborative group activities to co-create images and respond to artwork by answering certain questions.

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Design and Media Center, Boston, MA – Exhibition curator,  Fall 2018

  • Working closely with a MassArt’s photography course called Portraiture and Community Representation which brought together MassArt photography students and youth from Sociedad Latina (a local community-based organization) to co-create portraits in a semester-long project.
  • Supporting many elements of this collaboration including coordinating visits to and from College, documenting process and curating final exhibition show.

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Professional and Continuing Education, Boston, MA – Teaching Fellowship – “Introduction to Black and White Photography”, Summer 2018&2019

  • Proficiency in handling a 35mm camera, exposure control, film development, printing with enlargements and making photograms.
  • Managing darkroom chemicals, supervising students’ print workflow and arranging class field trips.
  • Helping students to clearly articulate interpretation of photographs during critiques and communicate these respectfully with faculty and peers.

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Photo Department, Boston, MA – Teaching Fellowship – “Introduction to Digital Photography”, Spring 2018

  • Demonstrating a working knowledge of shutter speeds, aperture settings, ISO Settings, light, exposure and camera angles in order to provide desired images.
  • Discussing how and what photographs communicate through careful analysis of students’ work.
  • Providing a very broad overview of digital photography as a unique form of the medium so as to encourage a more holistic understanding of it as both an art form and a technical craft.

Fine Art Photography Studio Intern, Abelardo Morell Studio, Newton, MA – Summer 2017

  • Scanning negative archives on a Flextight Imacon scanner.
  • Spotting negatives; cataloging; data entry; research, and assisting with daily studio tasks.

Harvard University, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge, MA – Digital Archivist, Summer 2017

  • Organizing and scanning 2000 postcards on a Flatbed scanner for the project, A View  from the View.
  • Post-processing, cropping, color correcting and cataloging images into folders

‘How to make a Photobook’ and  ‘What Is Multimedia?’  workshop series, Photography Development NGO, Mashhad, Iran – Photography Instructor, 2011-2016

  •  Transforming existing collections of photographs into publishable book dummies. process of editing and sequencing images, incorporating text, an visualizing the final book as an object.
  • Differences between Duetone, Tritone, Quadtone and black&white prints in offset machines.
  • Preparing students to collaborate and co-create a short video with a story line  using footage, photographs and audio.

Selected Solo / Group Exhibitions

2021-22

  • Harvard Staff Art Show

2020

2019

  • “Inside Iran”, Raskolnikow Gallery, Dersden, Germany
  •  EXPOSURE 2019, Photographic Resource Center, Lesley Art+Design, Van Dernoot Gallery, Boston
  • “Eyes On Main Street”, Wilson outdoor photo festival, 5th edition, North Carolina
  • “SYNC10”, SYNC Gallery, Denver, Colorado
  • “OPPOSITES”, Attleboro Arts Museum, MA, Attleboro, MA
  • MFA Alumni Retrospective Exhibition, Boston’s City Hall’s Scollay Square Gallery, Boston, MA
  • “Art of Mind”, A Visual Art Exhibit About Alzheimer’s, Dementia, and Mental Health, North Carolina

2018

  • “Bakalar and Paine” Galleries, MFA Thesis show, Boston, MA

2017

  • “Iran Contemporary Photography”- FOTOHOF, Salzburg, Vienna
  • “Planes in The Skye”- Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA
  •  “White/Black/Monochrome”- South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
  • “The Fine Art of Photography”- Plymouth Center for the Arts, Plymouth, MA
  • “Odes to the Homeland”- Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

2013

  • “Photographic Flâneuring” – Ferdowsi Gallery, Mashhad, Iran

2012

  • “Stream of Life” – Artin Gallery, Mashhad, Iran

Honors / Awards

  • Recipient of Dean’s Scholarship-Massachusetts College of Art and Design  2016-18
  • The Boston Globe review of my work at EXPOSURE 2019 show by Mark Feeney, 2019
  • Pro Member of American Photographic Artists (APA), New York chapter
  • Member of National Iranian Photographers’ Society
  • Member of Photographic Resource Center(PRC), Boston
  • Member of Fort Point Arts Community, Boston
  • Review from Elin Spring of “What Will You Remember?”, 2019
  • Completion award through Massachusetts Service Alliance for 1500 hours of service at Massachusetts College of Art and Design as a Student and Youth Engagement Coordinator 2018-19
  • Selected artist, Massachusetts College of Art and Design Annual Auction, “Bakalar and Paine” galleries 2018 & 2019
  • Featured Photographer by Instagram 2015
  • Selected Photographer in Mobile Photography Category – Khaneyeh Doost 2nd National Photography Festival, Mashhad, Iran 2014
  • Exclusive Interview with Hamshahri Daily, Mashhad, Iran 2013
  • Book cover  photograph for Dastan Hamshahri
  • Honorable Mention – 1st National Photography Festival, Birjand, Iran 2011
  • Honorable Mention – National Portraiture Photography Festival, Varamin, Iran 2011
  • 3rd Prize – 2nd National Photography Festival, Mashhad, Iran 2010

Books / Publications

  • “Fragments of a Last Dream”, 2017
  • “Mellat Park”, 2015
  • “Forbidden Fruit”, 2013
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