Fataneh Dadkhah
Born in 1952 in Tehran, Fataneh Dadkhah graduated from Tehran’s College of Mass Communications and Social Sciences. She has pioneered stage photography as an artistic discipline in Iran. Fataneh's work has since 1979 involved documentation of the rebirth of Iranian theatre. Her work ’Theatre Photography’ was published in 1983.
From 2001 Fataneh has exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2008 her work was featured at the Silk Road Gallery, Tehran; and the Richard J. Ernest Cultural Center, Annadale, Virginia, USA. She holds awards from the Lincoln Center (New York) and the Iranian-American Technology Council (Washington D.C.). Her work has been featured in over fiftheen solo and group exhibitions in Iran, in the US and in the UK including the Masques of Shahrazad in 2009.
