Experience

Harvard University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Teaching Assistant

  • Sep 2021 - Present



Freelance

• Artist & photographer

  • Jan 2011 - Present

• Photography Exhibitions

  • Jan 2012 - Aug 2020

  ● EXPOSURE, Photographic Resource Center, Lesley Art+Design, Van Dernoot Gallery, Boston, 2019● “Inside Iran”, Raskolnikow Gallery, Dersden, Germany ● “Eyes On Main Street”, Wilson outdoor photo festival, 5th edition, North Carolina, 2019 ● “SYNC10”, SYNC Gallery, Denver, Colorado, 2019● “OPPOSITES”, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA, 2019● MFA Alumni Retrospective Exhibition, Boston’s City Hall’s Scollay Square Gallery, Boston, MA, 2019● Bakalar and Paine Galleries, MFA Thesis Show, Boston, MA, 2018● “Iran Contemporary”- Fotohof, Salzburg, Vienna, 2017● “Planes in The Skye”- Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA, 2017● “White/Black/Monochrome”- South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, 2017● “The Fine Art of Photography”- Plymouth Center for the Arts, Plymouth, MA, 2017● “Odes to the Homeland”- Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, 2017● “A Simple Rendezvous 2” - Soltan Ali Gallery, Mashhad, Iran, 2014● “Photographic Flâneuring” - Ferdowsi Gallery, Mashhad, Iran, 2013● “Stream of Life” - Artin Gallery, Mashhad, Iran, 2012



Massachusetts College of Art and Design

• United States
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Faculty | Online Digital Photography

  • Jul 2020 - Aug 2020



Massachusetts College of Art and Design

• United States
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Faculty | Introduction to Black and White Photography

  • Jul 2018 - Aug 2019

  • Proficiency in handling a 35mm SLR camera, exposure control, film development, printing enlargements and making photograms. • Managing darkroom chemicals, supervising students’ print workflow, arranging field trips. • Helping students to clearly articulate interpretation of photographs during critiques and communicate these respectfully with faculty and peers. • Proficiency in handling a 35mm SLR camera, exposure control, film development, printing enlargements and making photograms. • Managing darkroom chemicals, supervising students’ print workflow, arranging field trips. • Helping students to clearly articulate interpretation of photographs during critiques and communicate these respectfully with faculty and peers.



Massachusetts Service Alliance

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Commonwealth Corps Student & Youth Engagement Coordinator

  • Aug 2018 - Jul 2019

  • Build relationships with CACP’s partner sites. Facilitate a partnership between an undergraduate photo class and a youth community organization outside the college. • Help recruit and build relationships with a diverse student team and volunteers committed to engaging meaningfully with the wider community. • Co-develop and co-facilitate Community Based Learning and Teaching(C-BLT) sessions, workshops which underpin student’s work with social justice awareness and sensitivity. • Support Associate Director in managing all aspects of CACP’s Community- Based Student Employment Program.



Institute of Contemporary Art Boston

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Visiting Artist

  • Feb 2019 - Feb 2019

  Teaching a workshop, “Beyond the Shot” • Students develop the photography, interviewing, graphic design, and layout skills they need to present work professionally. • Students learn non-destructive workflow of processing images in Photoshop, possible ways of incorporating text and image, InDesign skills to demonstrate idea as a photobook form. • Collaborative group activities to co-create images and respond to art work by answering certain questions.



Massachusetts College of Art and Design

• United States
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Teaching Fellowship | Introduction to Digital Photograhpy

  • Jan 2018 - May 2018

  • Demonstrating a working knowledge of shutter speeds, aperture settings, ISO Settings, light, exposure and camera angles in order to provide desired images • Discussing how and what photographs communicate through careful analysis of students’ work • Providing a very broad overview of digital photography as a unique form of the medium so as to encourage a more holistic understanding of it as both an art form and a technical craft

• Teaching Assistant | Advanced Digital Printing

  • Sep 2017 - Dec 2017

  • Focusing on refining the skills used for professional inkjet printing, with an emphasis on color management, camera raw and Flextight scanners workflow.



Massachusetts College of Art and Design

• United States
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Teaching Assistant | Time: Everyday City

  • Jan 2017 - May 2017

  • Helping students to become familiar with the basic concepts of time, narrative, movement and developing skills in temporal design • Developing proficiency in the use of tactile media tools to make a book • Acquiring knowledge of sound and video design, recording, editing and output working with Adobe Premier.

• Teaching Assistant | Visual Language

  • Sep 2016 - Dec 2016

  ● Helped students to enhance Photoshop skills in creating basic workflows● Printing assistant for final presentations and creative illustrations● Technical support with computers and DSLR cameras



Photography Development NGO

• Khorasan-e Razavi Province, Iran

• Workshops Instructor

  • Jan 2011 - Jan 2015

  ● Transforming existing collections of photographs into publishable book dummies. process of editing and sequencing images, incorporating text, and visualizing the final book as an object. ● Differences between Duetone, Tritone, Quadtone and black&white prints in offset machines. ● Preparing students to collaborate and co-create a short video with a story line by using footage, photographs and audio. ● Transforming existing collections of photographs into publishable book dummies. process of editing and sequencing images, incorporating text, and visualizing the final book as an object. ● Differences between Duetone, Tritone, Quadtone and black&white prints in offset machines. ● Preparing students to collaborate and co-create a short video with a story line by using footage, photographs and audio.



Parshmineh Accredited Lab

• CEO

  • Jan 2006 - Mar 2010