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Reza Sheikh

PhD

Academic Profile

Reza Sheikh – an independent scholar in the field of Iranian history of photography. A founding member of Akskhane-ye shahr photography museum in Tehran (est. 1993). Lecturer on the history of photography and photo-criticism at the Department of Fine Arts Tehran University. Published various articles in Persian and English on the topic of Iranian history of photography. Most recently (2013): co-editor of the special issue of Journal of History of Photography on the first one hundred years of Iranian Photography.