Bahman Jalali

Born 1944, Tehran

Death: 2010, Tehran, Iran

BA    Economics, Shaheed Beheshti University (formerly The National University of Iran)

Member of the Royal Society of Photographers, England

Photography instructor in different universities and schools in Iran for more than 25 years

Member of the editorial board for Aksnameh; a bi-monthly journal of photography in Tehran

Co-founder, a consultant to the board of trustees and a curator of old photos for Akskhaneh Shahr; the first Museum of photography created in Iran in 1997

Granted a very special homage for his forty years of career in photography by the Fundacio Antoni Tapies in Barcelona with a special solo exhibition curated by Catherine David from September to December 2007

More than 50 solo and group exhibitions in Iran, France, Hungary, Czech Republic, Finland and Spain, such as:

Exhibition in the British Museum of London, Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East in 2006

Ey Iran! Recent contemporary photography from Iran, Australia 2006

Persian Silver touring exhibition, 2004 – 2008

Lion under the Rainbow, Contemporary Art from Tehran, Athens, Greece 2008