Nasrollah Kasraian is a famous Iranian photographer.

Biography

A graduate in law from Tehran University, Nasrollah Kasraian has been engaged in photography since 1966. The Kasraian family is an influential Iranian family. Many of the family members are important artists in Iran and are also internationally known.
Nasrollah Kasraian is married to Ziba Arshi, a sociologist who accompanies him on his expeditions and collaborates with him in the publication of his works. They have three daughters and live in Tehran

Tehran

Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...

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Photography career

Kasraian travels around Iran taking pictures of all ethnic groups and publishes them in photobook

Photobook

A photo-book or photobook is a book in which photographs make a significant contribution to the overall content. The most critically acclaimed photo-books celebrate the creative work of an individual photographer, but can also result from the collaboration between a photographer and a writer, an...

s. The pictures are supplemented by detailed texts about the particular subject of each photobook. The text for the photbooks is often written by Kasraian's wife Ziba Arshi. Some of the photobooks are also made in collaboration with his brother Ghodratollah Kasraian.

Some important ethnological works are based on the work of Nasrollah Kasraian. One example is The nomadic people of Iran of Richard Tapper and Jon Thompson

Jon Thompson

Jon Thompson is an artist, curator and academic known for his involvement in the development of the YBA artist generation.As the Head of Goldsmiths Department of Art in the 1980s, Thompson opened up specialisms and allowed students to move freely between the different modes of practice, such as...

. The photo book Persepolis was made in collaboration with Mehrdad Bahar

Mehrdad Bahar

Mehrdād Bahār was a prominent Iranist, linguist, mythologist and Persian historian.Mehrdad Bahar, was the youngest son of Persian poet Mohammad Taghi Bahar. He held a PhD degree in Persian literature and Ancient Iranian languages from Tehran University...

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Nasrollah Kasraians work has appeared in GEO

GEO (magazine)

GEO is a family of educational monthly magazines similar to the National Geographic magazine. It is known for its profound reports, which are accompanied by opulent pictures.The first edition appeared in Germany in 1976...

 (German and French), Airone (Italian) and Grand Reportages (French). His published collected works include "Life", "From Childhood", "An Experience", "Endless Journey", "Our Homeland, Iran", "Turkmans of Iran", "Damavand", "Isfahan", "l'Iran Rural" and "Kurdistan".

He has received several national and international prizes, for instance for the photobook of the year in Iran and in Japan.

His exhibitions have been held Iran, England, France, Austria, Sweden, Canada, Holland, Belgium and the United States.

Published photo books

• Damavand, 1992, ISBN 964-6194-70-2
• Isfahan, 1999, ISBN 964-6728-08-1
• Persepolis, 5.Auflage: 1998, ISBN 964-416-167-X
• Nomads of Iran, 2001, ISBN 964-416-184-X
• Our Homeland Iran, 2001, ISBN 964-416-170-X

External links

• Kasraian's personal website
• An article about Kasraian on Iranian.com
  Iranian.com
  Iranian.com, also known as The Iranian and The Iranian Times, is an online English language magazine.Founded in July 1995 by entrepreneur/journalist Jahanshah Javid, Iranian.com has the largest online following among Iranians residing in North America, with about 68,000 visitors per month-Awards...
  
  
• Interview with Nasrollah Kasraian
• Some pictures of the calendar "Bam", dedicated to the city after the earthquake
• The writing of the postscript "The Ship"
• Review of "The nomadic people of Iran" Photos from his latest book, Gozaar