Bio and Curriculum Vitae
I was born on the edge of the
In the early seventies I landed a job with a Polaroid distributor in
I have photographed well over a million individuals for their portraits, passport-immigration photos, and their identification cards. I've studied photojournalism, marketing, and photography in
I've been involved in social and community related issues wherever I've lived, whether with the Red Lion Cubs Scouts 1961-2, the Pedra Eagle Scouts 1962-5, the Atropot Artistic Group 1963-5, the Pahlavi High Art Council 1965-6, the Tehran Chamber of Commerce 1972-8, the Neighborhood Rebuilding Task Force-Tehran 1978, the Tenant Defense Council-Tehran 1978-9, the Iranian American Society-Chicago 1991-3, the Iranian Artist group -4 Plus-Chicago 1993-4, the Radio Iran-Chicago program WVVX 103.1 FM 1990-8, the Iranian American Cooperation-Chicago1994-8, as a Community liaison to the Illinois Governors’ Ethnic Affairs Office 1992-8, a Community Consultant to the Gene Siskel Film Center of the Art Institute of Chicago 1992-present, 18 ST. Pilsen Open Studios 2003-present, Blue Line Task Force 2004.