My name is Hamed Yaghmaeian.
I am an engineer by education with a graduate degree in photography
and a penchant for visual and cultural anthropology.
I am presently a lecturer of photography at University of Tehran college of FineArts.
I have been converging on Photographic Practice*
as an empowering medium within participatory community-based
local development projects, focused on cityscapes and social landscape.
As the next step, I concentrate on the saga of childhood
and the pivotal position of the child in family-the primordial nucleus of society;
and the promotional quality of photography to increase capacities,
and the ability of children and adolescents
to collectively inspire local communities.
In parallel, as a flaneur-photographer,
who has lived all his life under post-revolutionary circumstances,
I point my camera towards subjects that inspire me.
My own work as a freelance photographer began 20 years ago while I was a student of Chemical Engineering at University of Tehran. Within the politically charged atmosphere of the country in those days, the university found itself at the center of demonstrations and agitations. I wanted to tell my own story and because of this enthusiasm, I changed my roadmap. Upon graduation, I entered the master’s program at the College of Fine Arts University of Tehran and received my MFA.
I have always been passionate about meeting and reaching out to people, hearing their stories, and finally to make my own narratives, as a storyteller, both visual and in text. However, I was shy. In my solitude, I have focused on traces...
Human beings live within the framework of their dreamscapes and initial hopes. Within the tension-ridden societies, our hopes are met with both hidden and apparent violence … and solitude is a consequence of this kind of offensive situation. I believe my photographic practice narrates loneliness...
I also have an art atelier called "tanHA WORKROOM";
The Persian word tanHA is a play with words. It means "lonely" and "bodies".
*
The term "Photographic Practice" is borrowed from Pierre Bourdieu's groundbreaking book:
Photography: A Middle-Brow Art, Stanford University Press, 1996.
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Hamed Yaghmaeian Freelance Photographer
■ Born in 1981, Semnan, Iran ■ BSEng [Chemical Engineering], 2005, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran ■ MFA [Photography], 2010, College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran |
Experiences
■ Teaching at College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, 2016 till now
■ Managing Director of Photographic Practice Art Institute - SEMNAN, 2018 - 2020
■ Project Manager on: The Terrain and Cultural Geography of Nineteenth Century Semnan
(As seen through the photographs and travelogues of Naser ed-Din Shah Qajar's Two pilgrimages to Khorasan (1867 and 1883)), 2017
■ "Photography and Urban Experience" Workshop, University of Science and Culture, Summer 2016
■ Project Manager on Creating a Book: THE STRUCTURAL – CULTURAL OF THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF SEMNAN, 2015 - 2016
■ Strategy Designer and Executive Director of PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF SEMNAN (1870s – 1970s), 2014 - 2017
■ Teaching at Faculty of Art and Architecture, Tehran Center Branch, Islamic Azad University, 2014 - 2015
■ Strategy Designer and Executive Director of PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran,
Alumni Association of Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, 2014
■ Visual Documentary and Knowledge Management Expert (Research and Development and Promotion Unit),
Tehran - Boston Consulting Engineers (TBE)Company, 2012 - 2014
■ "Participatory Social Documentary Photography" Workshop, Iranian Sociological Association, fall 2012 and winter 2013
■ Teaching at Isfahan University of Art, 2012
■ Strategy Designer and Executive Director of [PHOTOGRAPHIC PRACTICE and Children Empowerment « III » ]
Participant observation, promoting social capital, disclosing community interests, 2010 - 2012
(Joined with a project supported in part by UNESCO: The Participatory Revival of the Historic District of the City of Ardakan, in south central Iran (Province of Yazd))
■ Teaching at Faculty of Arts, Semnan University, 2010 - 2011
■ Strategy Designer and Executive Director of [PHOTOGRAPHIC PRACTICE and Children Empowerment « II » ]
To elicit hope in children fighting cancer,autumn and winter 2007
■ Strategy Designer and Executive Director of [PHOTOGRAPHIC PRACTICE and Children Empowerment « I » ]
Promoting Fundamental Concepts of Social Literacy in Afghan Immigrant Children, 2007 - 2009
■ Art Director of the Anniversary Exhibitions Photographic History of the college of Engineering, University of Tehran, 2006 - 2010
■ Photo Director of Alumni Association of Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, 2005 - 2009
■ Internship in Research Centre for Conservation of Cultural Relics (RCCCR), 2004
Solo Exhibitions
2013FLY, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2010Lasting Women - Victims, UNESCO, Paris, France
2007Everlasting Icons, Mahe Mehr Gallery, Tehran, Iran
The Exhibitions on PHOTOGRAPHIC PRACTICE
2018The Pomegranate of Ardakan, Loris Malaguzzi International Centre - Reggio Children, Fotografia Europea 2018, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2011 PHOTOGRAPHIC PRACTICE [3rd Experience], Street Exhibition on Ardakan, Iran
2010Afghan Immigrant Girls In search of Their World, UNESCO, Paris, France
2009The Experiences of Afghan Immigrant Girls, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran
The Exhibitions on PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY
2017PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF SEMNAN : on Modern Education, Semnan, Iran
2015PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF SEMNAN : Get-Togethers Photos in the War Years, Semnan, Iran
2015Street Exhibition on SEMNAN 1970s, Semnan, Iran
2006 -- 2010 Anniversary Exhibitions on Photographic History of the college of Engineering, University of Tehran, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Group Exhibitions
2017It Is Us, Not Them, Ariana Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2011ICE, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2010Recent Self Portraits, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2009 165 Years Iranian Photography, musee du quai Branly, Paris, France
2008Inner Eye in Iranian Photography, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
2007IRAN : People, Roads, Landscape, Candiani Cultural Centre, Venice, Italia
2006Deeper Depression : a Contemporary Art Practice, Tehran Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2006The Week of Iranian Culture, Zagreb, Croatia