Rana Javadi

llives and works in Teheran
Guest artist at Villa Romana from June to July 2010

Interview mit Rana Javadi

Biography

Rana Javadi is a self taught photographer. Since 1989 she is the director of "Photo and Pictorial Studies" at the Cultural Research Bureau, a non profit research, consulting and publishing organization in Tehran. Since 1999 she is - besides being a member of the founding group - the director of Aksnameh, a quarterly journal for photography. From 1997 - 1999 she was a member of the founding group, the board of trustees, and director of the Akskhaneh Shahr, the first museum devoted entirely to photography in Iran. Rana Javadi is often invited to be member of the jury for different photo contests.

Photo plates of time (2003), prints on photographic paper, 50 x 50 cm

Single Exhibitions (selection)

2008
Golestan Gallery, Teheran

2003
13 Vank Street, Teheran


Group Exhibitions (selection)

2009
165 Years of Iranian Photography, Musee du Quai Branly, Paris

2008
Lion Under the Rainbow, Athens
Home Works IV 2008, dokumentarische Foto-Projektion, Beirut

2007
Silk Road Gallery, Tehran
Thirty years of Solitude, Long Room New Hall, Cambridge, UK

2005
Iran... Tehran....7 photographes de ce temps, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris
D Foto, San Sebastian, ES

2004
Paris Photo
Regards sur les femmes d’Iran, European Parliament and Town Hall, Brussels
Vis a Vis, Hotel Fairmount, Dubai

2003
Silk Road Gallery, Tehran
Women in the Orient- Women in the Occident, Museum für Frauen Bonn, Berlin, Karlsruhe, DE

2002
A Glimpse of Iran, Thessolaniki Int’l Film Festival

2001
Regards Persians, Paris


Publications

2000
Zavareh, the symbol of the kavir myth, Cultural Research Bureau, Teheran

1997
Old Windows of Tehran, Cultural Research Bureau, Teheran

1995
Facades of Tehran Buildings, Cultural Research Bureau, Teheran