Goga Bayat
Goga Bayat started her work in film productions in 1987, in Iran. She ran her own portrait studio in Tehran and has been involved with the production of over 25 films, series, short films and plays, a number of which have received international recognition and awards. “The circle”, directed by Jaffar Panahi, won The Golden Lion award from the Venice International Film Festival in 2002 and led to her solo exhibition on film stills in Parma Theatre Gallery in Parma, Italy, in 2003. “Hidden half” directed by Tahmineh Milani was nominated in the human rights category by The Political Film Society, USA, in 2001. The script of the film was published in a book based on Goga’s photographs. Two solo exhibitions in Tehran brought her great reviews. The first was based on children’s doodling on the wooden school desks of Iran and the second was on the love memos Iranians inscribe on paper currency.
Goga is one of the founders of the Iranian Society of Still Photographers and has been an active member since 1997. She has been a member of IATSE since 2003.
As a freelance photographer and a recent Canadian resident Goga is continuing her work in film production and is building her own portrait studio in Vancouver.
