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, and now has 20 years of experience in capturing images and documenting the rebirth of Iranian theatre, after 1979.
Her work ’Theatre Photography’ was published in 1983. From 2001 Fataneh has exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2008, for example, 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 DC). Her work was featured in more than 15 solo and group exhibitions in Iran and the US, including in Candlestar's Masques of Shahrazad in 2009.
