Mehrdad Afsari
Mehrdad Afsari (born 1977) is an Iranian photographer best known for his artistic and unusual landscapes with a conceptual and philosophical approach. Life and work. Mehrdad Afsari is an Iranian fine art photographer, documentary film director and video artist. He was born in 1977 in Khoy. He got a B.A. in photography from University of Tehran in 2000 and M.F.A in photography from Tehran University of art in 2006. He has been professor at Tehran University of Art for 14 years. He is an honorary member of Iranian Visual Artists Society. Since 2001, he has had 16 solo  exhibitions in different galleries in Iran and his works have been shown in more than 80 exhibitions around the world such as Iran, China, Germany, US, UAE, Lithuania, Spain, Italy, Slovenia, Turkey, Georgia, France, Canada, Norway, UK such as Photo London 2018, Venice Biennial in Italy, Paris Photo in France, Contemporary Art Istanbul in Turkey, Queens Museum of Art (QMA) in USA, MAO Museum of Architecture and Design in Slovenia, The Reina Sofia Museum in Spain, Georgia Museum of Art, "University of Westminster in London and Tehran museum of contemporary art (TMOCA). He has also been the Jury member, lecturer  and curator of many national and international festivals and exhibitions such as 11th Fajr visual arts Festival at Iranian Academy of the Arts. Afsari curated the group exhibition "Confined Landscape" at Mohsen Gallery in Tehran in 2012 and the group exhibition "Winter" there in 2015. He also curate "The Land of Bewilderment" memoir exhibition of Mohammad Sayyad’s photographs of Iraqi Kurd refugees, exhibited after some thirty years, which are replete with sorrow and bewilderment held in Nabshi Center