TAHEREH FALLAHZADEH
Tahereh Fallahzadeh (b.1968, Iran) is an artist based in Tehran who, while working within different modes of photography, has constructed a deep relation to ways of representing, reflecting, and expressing selfhood. Her photographic work is influenced by her early experiments in the darkroom as well as Iranian culture.
She received a BA in literature from Melli University and a BA of photography from YCAI (Young Cinema Association of Iran), where she was trained in documentary photography. She then became an accredited teacher, and worked for more than 25 years as a photography instructor at a fine arts school for female students.
Fallazadeh has been a part of various group shows in Iran. She had a two person show at Baxter Street Gallery in New York in 2019 with the artist Fia Backstrom, and more recently, had a solo exhibition at Delgosha Gallery in Tehran in February 2021.
Tahereh is the mother of New York based artist Hadi Fallahzadeh.
Untitled, 2002
Silver Gelatin Print
11”H x 14”W framed
Unique
Untitled, 1999
Silver Gelatin Print
12”H x 9”W framed
Unique
“Ms. Fallahzadeh is a ‘visual interpreter’ of Iranian culture, rather than a photographer of cultural, sociological and political realities. Her work can be viewed both as poetic and allegorical.”
— Clayton Press
“Against The Sun: Tahereh Fallahzadeh With Fia Backström At Baxter St, New York”, Forbes
“Whether it is a man herding sheep on a suburban road or boys riding in the trunk of a classic car, Ms. Fallahzadeh captures a certain timeless quality in post-revolutionary Iran.”
— Clayton Press
“Against The Sun: Tahereh Fallahzadeh With Fia Backström At Baxter St, New York”, Forbes
“Ms. Fallahzadeh’s work not only references visual representations of Iranian women, but also the country’s culture and landscape more generally. She connects the near past and unsettled present using photograms that also express the personal myths and realities of her subjects.”
— Clayton Press
“Against The Sun: Tahereh Fallahzadeh With Fia Backström At Baxter St, New York”, Forbes
“As one of the few female photographers to pursue unorthodox and experimental photography as a mode of fine art while working in an academic context in Iran, Tahereh Fallahzadeh’s work asserts a politics and an emotional resonance unique to the history of photography.
Fallahzadeh’s mostly small scale traditional darkroom photographs combine elements of collage, photograms, and chemical marks through intuitive processes in a distinct manner that feels as much rooted in the history of photography as it is in a contemporary discourse.”
— The Camera Club of New York
“Tahereh Fallahzadeh: Against the Sun”, Printed Matter, Inc.