Bahman Jalali

Bahman Jalali studied economics and political science at Melli University in Tehran before devoting his life to photography. He documented the 1979 revolution and the Iran–Iraq war, and taught photography in Iranian universities for some thirty years, training a generation of photographers. In 1997 he was a founding member of Akskhaneh Shahr, Iran’s first photography museum, and in 1998 he launched the quarterly Aksnameh with Rana Javadi. He received the Spectrum International Prize for Photography, and his work was the subject of retrospectives at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona (2007) and the Sprengel Museum in Hanover (2011). His photographs are held by the British Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Sprengel Museum and the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. Silk Road Gallery still represents his work.