Aziz Art January2018

Nasrollah Kasraian
Biography
A graduate in law from Tehran
University, Nasrollah Kasraian has
been engaged in photography
since 1966. The Kasraian family is
an influential Iranian family. Many
of the family members are
important artists in Iran and are
also internationally known.
Nasrollah Kasraian is married to
Ziba Arshi, a sociologist who
accompanies him on his
expeditions and collaborates with
him in the publication of his works.
They have three daughters and
live in Tehran.
Photography career
Kasraian travels around Iran
taking pictures of all ethnic
groups and publishes them in
photobooks. The pictures are
supplemented by detailed texts
about the particular subject of each
photobook. The text for the
photbooks is often written by
Kasraian's wife Ziba Arshi. Some of
the photobooks are also made in
collaboration with his brother
Ghodratollah Kasraian.
Some important ethnological works
are based on the work of Nasrollah
Kasraian. One example is The
nomadic people of Iran of Richard
Tapper and Jon Thompson. The
photo book Persepolis was made in
collaboration with Mehrdad Bahar.
Nasrollah Kasraian's work has
appeared in GEO (German and
French), Airone (Italian), Grand
Reportages (French), Animan
(Switzerland) and Altaiir (Spain). His
published collected works in Iran
include "Our Homeland, Iran",
"Turkmans of Iran", "Kurds of Iran" ,
"Balouchestan" , "Qashqais" ,
"Deserts of Iran" , " Bazaars of Iran"
, "Damavand", "Isfahan",
"Persepolis" and ... ; Also "l'Iran
Rural" , "Kurdistan" and "The
nomadic peoples of Iran" published
abroad .