Parisa Azadi

A Canadian visual journalist.Based in Iran and Dubai. Available for assignments in the Middle East and Worldwide

Ones To Watch by the British Journal of Photography

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Location: Tehran, Iran & Dubai, UAE

Nationality: Canadian-Iranian

Biography: Parisa Azadi is a Canadian visual journalist and storyteller with a keen interest in history and conflict, memory and displacement. She is based between Tehran, Iran and Dubai, UAE and is available for assignments and commissions in the Middle... MORE

Ones To Watch by the British Journal of Photography

Children take rest in a storage...i Dalan during Friday prayers.

Children take rest in a storage room in Hossaini Dalan during Friday prayers.

A child makes a star with a elastic band in Hossaini Dalan.

Tara (L) and her friend Sara (R... to seek a better life abroad.

Tara (L) and her friend Sara (R) look out the window in Tehran amid the coronavirus pandemic in Tehran, Iran on June 9, 2020. Like many young Iranians, Tara and Sara are worried about their future as currency collapse, unemployment and inflation is making it harder for young Iranians to meet basic financial demands and is pushing many of them to seek a better life abroad.

Amir Hussain plays with his bir...is birthday amid the pandemic.

Amir Hussain plays with his bird on his birthday at home in the outskirts of Tehran, Iran on May 5, 2020. As the virus continued to spread across Iran, family visits, parties and picnics were temporarily suspended. Amir Hussain’s family held a small quiet gathering at home to celebrate his birthday amid the pandemic.

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Ones To Watch by the British Journal of Photography

parisa azadi

Dec 24, 2023

Location: Iran

Summary

In 2023, Parisa Azadi was selected as the 'Ones to Watch' by the British Journal of Photography.

https://www.1854.photography/2023/06/parisa-azadi-ones-to-watch/

The transition to the West was difficult for Parisa Azadi, who was born in Tehran amid the Iran-Iraq war. The Ones To Watch winner felt the “heavy burden” of becoming part of a new minority with a fractured identity and, over time, this shaped her photography.⁠
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In Ordinary Grief, Azadi embarks on a personal and political reconciliation with Iran after 25 years of self-exile. Centering the lives of ordinary citizens, she describes quiet moments and reflective gestures as people desperately try to create new futures for themselves against all odds. ⁠
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“The urgency of Azadi’s voice immediately struck me,” says photographic artist and curator Bindi Vora, who nominated Azadi for Ones to Watch. “Her works raise crucial questions around how surveillance, activism and uprising are discussed, often seen through the lens of political limbo and the burden of grief.”⁠

https://www.1854.photography/2023/06/parisa-azadi-ones-to-watch/

Personal and political: An illuminating look at the strength of Iranian identity
Through her journey to rediscover her native Iran, Ones To Watch winner Parisa Azadi provides an intimate portrait of survival and joy
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