MOHSEN SHAHMARDI
Biography
Date and Place of Birth: 1979 Tehran, Iran
Key Education Dates:
2001 - 2004 Certificate in Cinema, UAST University, Tehran
Dissertation: Director of 2 Shortfilms: "White Source" (16mm) and "Doubt" (video)
From 2004 to 2005 I worked as an Industrial Advertising photographer in a company. After that I worked as a photojournalist for an Iranian leading newspaper Hayate No (2006-2010), and at the same time I was a senior photo editor in CHN news agency (2007). I'm a freelance
photographer now.
Exhibitions:
-"Images of Iran" solo exhibition in Japon/Osaka 2008
-"Bam e Emrooz" group exhibition in Iran/Tehran 2007
-First and second 'photo expo" in Iran / Tehran 2008-2009
-"Norouz Hamghadam" group exhibition Paris, France 2010
- "Un Habitat" (young artists) group exhibition in London, England 2009
Awards:
- Special choice by the Jury of the YOUNG ARTISTS COMPETITION, UN Habitat festival (2009)
- First prize of the national-religious rituals for enjoy & happiness festival (2007)
- Third prize of Sense and Wood photo competition (2006).
