Fakhreddin Fakhreddini
Biography
Fakhreddin Fakhreddini was born in the last days of 1311 in Tabriz. His father was a poet and photographer and his brother Farhad is one of the greatest contemporary musicians. He became interested in painting as a child and started photographing with his father at the age of 18. After gaining experience in Iran, he traveled to the United States and Germany and began researching and working in the field of characterism in portrait photography, and after studying several books by contemporary photographers around the world, he turned to portrait photography. Fakhreddini worked for 30 years at the San Francisco Academy and for 1.5 years with one of the world’s greatest photography experts, Sharkovsky, and learned outstanding photography techniques. This eminent professor of photography has been photographing enduring scientific, cultural and artistic figures for many years and has shone in dozens of foreign and domestic exhibitions and has recently published his paintings in the form of portrait photo books, which is the peak of the power of photography in each portrait. Taken by them can be seen. According to Fakhreddin Fakhreddini himself, most of Iran’s prominent celebrities sit in his studio chair and stare at his camera lens. Effects: • Exhibition with 30 photographs of portraits in the United States, Los Angeles – 1961. • Exhibition of 15 portraits – Tehran, Bahman Cultural Center – 1997 • Print 12 portraits from a collection of portraits in Ilford’s annual calendar • Exhibition of 50 photographs from the collection: Portrait, Nature and Flowers – Tehran, Saadabad Museum of Fine Arts, 2000 • Exhibition of 50 photographs from the collection of portraits – Tabriz, exhibition hall of magnificent works in the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance – 2002 • Exhibition of 80 portraits in Niavaran Cultural Center, Tehran, 2004 • Printing the book of Fakhreddin Fakhreddini’s photographs (portrait) and presenting it simultaneously in the exhibition – Has ISBN: 964-06-5032-3- Circulation 3000 volumes- Summer 2004- Publisher: Sahib • Exhibition (Portrait, Nature, Persepolis) – June 20 to July 6, 2004 – Tehran, Niavaran Artistic Creations Foundation • Display of 10 portrait photographs in the size of 80 * 70 cm – Tehran, Museum of Contemporary Art – 2006 • Inauguration of Fakhreddin Gallery – Special Exhibition of Artists – Tehran, Khaled Eslambouli St. (Ministers) – 12th Alley – No. 8- First Floor • Holding a commemoration ceremony at the Dr. Mahmoud Afshar Yazdi Endowment Foundation and holding a photo exhibition of portraits, December 2012
- Birthday: 05.03.1933
- Birthplace: Tabriz, East Azerbaijan, Iran
- Interview date: 31.01.2016 – 31.01.2016
Photographer and Painter
Fakhreddin Fakhreddini
Maryam Zandi
Kamran Adle
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