The Most Famous
PHOTOGRAPHERS from Iran
This page contains a list of the greatest Iranian Photographers. The pantheon dataset contains 148 Photographers, 1 of which were born in Iran. This makes Iran the birth place of the 23rd most number of Photographers behind Latvia, and Vietnam.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Iranian Photographers of all time. This list of famous Iranian Photographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Abbas (1944 - 2018)
With an HPI of 58.14, Abbas is the most famous Iranian Photographer. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Abbas Attar (Persian: عباس; full name: عباس عطار ʿAbbās ʿAṭṭār; 29 March 1944 – 25 April 2018), better known by his mononym Abbas, was an Iranian photographer known for his photojournalism in Biafra, Vietnam and South Africa in the 1970s, and for his extensive essays on religions in later years. He was a member of Sipa Press from 1971 to 1973, a member of Gamma from 1974 to 1980, and joined Magnum Photos in 1981.
2. Shadi Ghadirian (b. 1974)
With an HPI of 40.63, Shadi Ghadirian is the 2nd most famous Iranian Photographer. Her biography has been translated into 14 different languages.
Shadi Ghadirian (born 1974; Persian: شادی قدیریان) is an Iranian contemporary photographer. Her work is influenced by her experiences as a Muslim woman living in contemporary Iran, but her work also relates to the lives of women throughout the world. Through her work, she critically comments on the pushes and pulls between tradition and modernity for women living in Iran, as well as other contradictions that exist in everyday life. She explores the topics of censorship, religion, modernity, and the status of women. Ghadirian gained international recognition through the series Qajar and Like Every Day in 1998 and 2001. She lives in Tehran.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Iranian photographers born between 1944 and 1974. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Iranian photographers include Shadi Ghadirian. The most famous deceased Iranian photographers include Abbas. As of April 2024, 1 new Iranian photographers have been added to Pantheon including Shadi Ghadirian.
