Bahman Jalali

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Bahman Jalali (Born 1944) is an Iranian photographer , who has been teaching photography in different universities in Iran for 20 years.

1 Career
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[edit] Career

He graduated in Economics from Melli University in Tehran , then started his career as a Photographer with Tamasha Magazine in 1972 .

He is best known for his documentary photographs from Iranian Revolution in 1979 . but After revolution he focused more in Teaching photography in Iranian Universities than doing it . He was curator of Iran's first museum of photography single-handedly introduced photography to the country and making it acceptable as an art form and inspiring a generation of emerging Iranian photographers.

his latest work was a photo series called " Image of Imaginations " , which took 3 years (2003-2006) for him to complete this series . it was a Mixture of flowers or Iranian calligraphy with the old photos from the history of Iranian photography . he explained later : “I have been exposed to many images by little known photographers around the country. Those that I could keep, I have held as mementos, and others have left their marks on my imagination.”.^[1] the Museum of Fine Arts in Nantes have bought this photo series for their collection .

At the moment Bahman Jalali is member of the editorial board for Aksnameh, a bi-monthly journal of photography in Tehran .