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Indepth Arts News: "The Days of Their Lives: Photographs by Seifollah Samadian" 2008-08-19 until 2008-09-12 Xerxes Fine Arts London, , UK United Kingdom
Samadian is renowned for his ability to express the lives of others through his sensitive and articulate use of film.
“He knows how to enter a space” says Kiarostami about his former cameraman. “This gentleman can't look at
anything without a camera and when he turns off the camera its like his eyelids are closed”.
Seifollah Samadian was born in Tehran in 1954. His achievements include
the widely-acclaimed documentary film The White Station, and ABC Africa
made with Abbas Kiarostami.
His photography has been widely shown in international exhibitions and
museums including the Istanbul and Sharjah biennials, World Press Photo
the Barbican, the V&A museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art,
Vienna.
Samadian is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the Iranian arts magazine,
Tassvir.
Established in 2008, Xerxes Fine Arts is the only gallery outside of the
Persian Gulf which acts as a primary dealer for artists of note from Iran
and the Middle East. With a strong focus on contemporary visual arts,
and a mission to nurture and promote young artists from the region, the
gallery represents a gateway, bringing to London and the wider world an
exciting new generation of talented artists from Iran and the Middle East.
Xerxes’s artists are shown in China by Contrasts Gallery.
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