Bahman Jalali (1944 – 15 January 2010) was an Iranian photographer who played a significant role in educating a new generation of Iranian photographers. He taught photography at several universities in Iran over a 30-year period.

Aug 6, 2022 · Driven by the medium’s powerful—and fragile—relationship to memory, Jalali and Javadi created an unparalleled visual record of a tumultuous period in their homeland.

Bahman Jalali (1945-2010) studied economics and political science at Melli university in Tehran, but very soon followed his passion for photography. In 1974 he joined the Royal Photographic Society in Great Britain and dedicated his life to photography.

Apr 15, 2019 · Taken by Bahman Jalali, the image of a half-finished building close to the Azadi monument suggests a striking metaphor: the country’s incomplete project of modernity imagined by the Shah, interrupted by tiers of people, hopeful, excited …

Bahman Jalali (1944 – 2010) is one of the most important figures in contemporary Iranian photography. With his black and white photographs he documented the dramatic political events that took place in his country over the years – the Iranian revolution of 1978 – 79, the Iran-Iraq war of 1980 – 88 – as well as the change in urban life ...

Bahman Jalali visited Berlin in September, with 125 slides and photos of Khorramshahr’s Occupy and eight-year sacred defense in Berlin, offering a 12-minute film at the Berlin Film and Documentary Festival.

Bahman Jalali, who died in 2010, taught for many years at the Tehran University of Art, where Gohar Dashti was his student in the early 2000s. Jalali started out as a documentary photographer before gradually turning to a more experimental, conceptually driven approach.

Born in Tehran in 1944, Bahman Jalali’s career both spans and engages with the dramatic socio-religious transformation of Iran during the later 20th century. As a documentary photographer and as a teacher, historian, and artist, Jalali has used photography to investigate contemporary Iranian culture, employing the image as evidence that can ...

Feb 20, 2025 · Bahman Jalali was born in 1953 in a cultural family in Tehran. His family's deep roots in literature and art caused him to become familiar with and grow up with classical and modern Iranian art and literature from his childhood.

“Living in Two Times,” on view Aug. 6–Jan. 8, 2023, features the work of Bahman Jalali (1944–2010) and his wife and closest collaborator Rana Javadi (b. 1953).