2021 EXTERIOR ARCHITECTURE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD Shamim Polymer Factory Persia Photography Center Photographer: parham taghioff The Architecture MasterPrize certifies that Shamim Polymer Factory by Persia Photography Center has been awarded in the Exterior Architecture Photography – Industrial Exterior category. https://architectureprize.com/winners/2021_photo.php
Building with history portfolio shortlist: Steelform Showroom in Tehran, Iran by Parham Taghioff Architect firm:Admun Studio The shortlist has been selected from nearly 2000 entries from 42 countries. 26% of the entries were from the UK, 14% from the USA & 14% from China. Germany, … Continue readingThe Architectural Photography Awards (APA) 2021
Armenia Art Fair has launched an online exhibition showcasing digital artworks by experimental artists from Armenia and abroad. The exhibition, Open Space, is now available online until 30 January, and features artworks ranging from performance art to photography by 30 artists from 19 different countries. … Continue readingSurreal 3D landscapes, eco-performances and political collages: take a tour of a digital art exhibition from Armenia
[MO] Parham, the images of Asymmetrical Authority are at once familiar and strange to theimagination imprinted with the political history of contemporary Iran. They recall the 1979Revolution that deposed the Pahlavi monarchy and brought about the Islamic Republic as well asthe eight years of war … Continue reading“History/Image: National Memory Beyond Nationalism” A Conversation with Photographer Parham Taghioff by Milad Odabaei
Iranian contemporary art is an achievement influenced by modernism that has found a suitable context for expression in direction of becoming globalized and in the age of communication. Whether this context is spontaneous and a historical necessity or a planned and imposed project, it is … Continue readingA Note on Iranian Contemporary Art by Parham Taghioff
Asymmetrical Authority & Historical Kaleidoscope stages photography against photography. Parham Taghioff’s photography challenges the apparent complacency of image-making with the conventional narrative of Iran’s history, questioning representational historiography itself by rendering visible the movement it captures. The images take up the photographic representation of paradigmatic … Continue readingA note on “Asymmetrical Authority & Historical Kaleidoscope” Series by Milad Odabaei
I. Using history as a force in art is to coordinate, reconcile, and combine two far away realms, as one is rooted in knowledge and the other strives for truth. History is the realization of humans’ insatiable desire for learning, and then writing and waiting … Continue readingA Note on “Asymmetrical Authority” by Hamidreza Karami
Panel Discussion about “Iranian Contemporary Photography” with Amirali Ghasemi, Parham Taghioff & Hamidreza Karami | December 11,2018 | University of Tehran.
Parham Taghioff ‘s photographs has been selected by the international jury into the professional category shortlist of Architectural Photography Award 2017.The award ceremony and the exhibition opening will be held on November 22, 2017 in Budapest.More Info:http://photoaward.meonline.hu/results/ EXHIBITION SERIES 22 November 2017, 6 pm, Kunsthalle, … Continue readingArchitectural Photography Award 2017
Parham Taghioff was born in 1978, the year of the Iranian Revolution. Implicitly referring to the systematic re-writing of history in the aftermath of the Revolution, he jokingly tells me he was born in the “year zero.” He traces his interest in images to when … Continue reading“The Revolution Was a Wave that Overtook Me”A Conversation with Photographer Parham Taghioff by Milad Odabaei