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 Reza has shouldered the weight of a  camera since he was 14 years old. He has witnessed both the 1979 Iranian  Revolution and the Iran-Iraq war, after which he had to escape his  native country for the United States . His exile resulted in the loss of  an enormous amount of work from that exceptional period in Iranian  history. During these tumultuous times, photographers were generally  mistrusted by all factions across the political spectrum.  Anyone  attempting to document the events photographically was stigmatized as a  collaborator by the government, revolutionary activists, and the average  citizen alike. This meant that the political and social climate of the  day made both amateur and professional photography virtually impossible.  In one instance in the Iranian city of Ahwas , an incoming Iraqi  missile exploded in front of a book store. When Reza began taking photos  of the shrapnel lodged in the books on the shelves his camera was  confiscated by outraged vigilantes and he had to beg his way out of that  dilemma.  Being active in the  Iranian student movement and documenting demonstrations during the  antiwar movement of the seventies was a risky venture forbidden by the  political climate. He understands the photographer’s frightening  predicament in the climate of uncertainty. Many of the portraits of  friends executed later on are part of his private collection.     During both the Iranian  revolution and the Iran-Iraq war, self-censorship and rampant thuggery  in the streets led to the loss of a vital body of work. In  one incident in his birthplace, Haft-Kel, a suitcase full of slides that  was buried, to be retrieved at a safer time, was destroyed by flooding.   Some of Reza's most  cherished photos documenting the more frightening and tragic moments of  the revolution and war during the late '70’s and early 80's were among  the lost works. A few of the surviving works are included in this  exhibit.   Long after  surviving those tumultuous times of arbitrary and astonishing violence,  Reza still experienced institutionalized mistreatment at the hands of  government agents at airports in many countries, including his adopted  home, the U.S. On almost every return trip to the U.S. , customs agents  have questioned him, and on several occasions, strip-searched him. This  he finds more distressing than the threat of robbery by local gangs when  working alone in remote areas of the world.  Reza has  photographically documented all areas of his life, including his school  years, his family, his work, and his political activities. The central  themes of his work focus on Nature - Cloud and Foliage; Reflections;  colorful compositions; close-ups; and photos of various indigenous  people from many Middle Eastern and Latin American countries.  

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