Mehdi Vosoughnia

Mehdi Vosoughnia was born in 1971 in Qazvin. He studied photography at the School of Art and Architecture of Azad University and began taking photographs at seventeen, in classes at the Iranian Youth Cinema Society, which shaped his interest in social and documentary photography. His series Anzali and Pamenar, both published as books in Tehran in 2014, were shown at Silk Road Gallery in 2015 and 2016. His work was included in Iranian Photography Now (Hatje Cantz, 2009) and in a retrospective at the Isfahan Museum of Contemporary Art (2008). He has served on photography juries and has led more than thirty documentary photography workshops in Iran.