About Shahriar Mazandi

Shahriar Mazandi's work has been syndicated worldwide by Katz Pictures. He has been featured in the Sunday Times Magazine in the UK and numerous other magazines around the world.

A series of his desert photographs have been exhibited at the Royal Geographical Society, Kensington Gore.

His show at the Andipa Gallery, Walton Street, London, 'Ghosts and Machines' described people within the automotive movements of California; namely Lowriders, Drag racers and Hot rods.

A series of his photographs of classic cars form part of the permanent collection of the Blackhawk Automotive Museum, one of the world's great automotive museums.

Most recently his work was exhibited at Harrow School, his old school, in a show that ran from September 2008 to March 2009. This show featured Harrovian photographers from 1834 to the present and included William Fox-Talbot, Cecil Beaton and Patrick Litchfield. Of the living photographers, with seven prints on display, he had the largest number of images in the show.

The narrative quality of his work shows an interplay between man and his environment, societies and the influence of their cultures with their surroundings.

Some of his black and white photographs of people and their cars bear a mood of nostalgia. They look like old photographs; as if they had been taken further back in time than they were. They allude to the inherrently nostalgic nature of classic car culture. The medium of black and white plays upon this. His various essays on Californians and their cars compares an individual's car to a coat of arms or a ceremonial shield that defines that individual within his culture.

Shahriar's other essays include dark and moody road trips. His landscapes are often captured at night, or, at the last moments of 'magic hour', as darkness turns to dusk.

Shahriar Mazandi can be contacted via email at the link, as above, or directly by phone on 01424 442524 or his mobile: 07969 048757