Jassem Ghazbanpour

Jassem Ghazbanpour was born in 1963 in Khorramshahr, Iran, and lives and works in Tehran. He began photographing daily life in Khuzestan as a teenager and, at sixteen, started documenting the Iran–Iraq war in the field, becoming one of Iran’s best-known war photographers. He holds a BA in photography from the Tehran University of Art. Alongside war reporting, he has photographed culture, art and architecture, and has published numerous books, including Sky and Earth: Tehran under Missile Attack, Iran from the Sky and, most recently, Neighbour’s Mementos. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in France, Italy, Japan and the United States. Silk Road Gallery presented his series Life and Nothing More in 2016 and showed his photographs at Paris Photo, and his images were part of Iran, Année 38 at the Rencontres d’Arles in 2017 and of the book that accompanied it.