Azadeh Akhlaghi
Born in 1978 in Shiraz, Iran, and having studied at the University of Melbourne, Azadeh Akhlaghi now lives and works in Tehran and in Melbourne. Azadeh is a conceptual artist, focusing on photography, video-arts and short movies. Alongside developing her own body of work, Azadeh acted as an assistant director to Abbas Kiarostami and Manijeh Hekmat between the years 2005 and 2008. Her short movies produced during this period have been screened in a number of film festivals including Pusan International Film Festival and Oslo International Film Festival and sceerned at the Berkeley Art Museum.
Azadeh has obtained numerous awards, and her work has been exhibited in major shows, including Candlestar's Whispered Secrets, Murmuring Dreams in 2008 and Masques of Shahrazad in 2009.
