Curriculum Vitae
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Akasam, Lar, Iran
2014 Misterios de una casa, Casa de la Cultura, Guanabacoa, Cuba
2012 FourSight, Metro Galleries, Bakersfield, California
2010 Mon 50 en 50, Fort St. Martin Gallery, Cherbourg, France
2007 Georgios , Didi Gallery, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
2005 Fort St. Martin Gallery, Cherbourg, France
2003 Images of Islam, Taos Film Festival
2003 Moments on the Path, DaVinci Gallery, Philadelphia
2002 Hidden Portraits of Iran, Sacred and Sensual Gallery, Tokyo
2002 Images of the Uighurs, On the Silk Road, Washington DC
2002 Arab Moments, Arab Film Festival, San Francisco, Califiornia
2000 Moments of Exaltation, People of Faith, Nigma Gallery, Naples
2000 Arab Moments , Fort St. Martin Gallery, Cherbourg, France
GROUP SHOWS
2010 Artisterium, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
2009 ArtSpan, San Francisco, California, USA
2008 Santa Fe Complex, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2003 Taos Film Festival, Taos, New Mexico, USA
2003 YMCI gallery, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
2001 Central Mosque San Francisco, California, USA
2001 Arab Cultural Center, San Francisco, USA
2000 Arab Cultural Center, San Francisco, USA
2000 Photoworks, San Francisco, California, USA
1995 Festival on the Lake, Oakland, California, USA
AWARDS
1998 Light Work, Syracuse
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Susan Meiselas (Magnum)
BOOKS
Pochefolio, 2009
Dervishes of Kurdistan 2008
My big fat (and wet) baptism, 2008
Georgios 2007
Halo of Presence, 2007
PBS: Living the life of a Western Sufi, 2003
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Currently Staff photographer at PHOTOVAULT, California and international tour guide; Indefinitely an intrepid traveler and linguist.
2003 - 2004 Developed and shot footage for a documentary on African-American D-Day veterans. Still seeking funds for editing and post-production.
1990 - 1992 Extensive travel through Siberia Russia, lecturing English at AKADEMGORODOK, Russia.
1979 - 1987 MA in Linguistics and Anthropology in Paris and Berlin.
1984 - 1989 Interpreter and staff photographer for City Hall, Berlin.
1982 - 1985 "Man of good vibrations", translator and staff photographer for 2 years on the award- winning documentary, Señor Turista, in Puno, Peru.
Oral and written proficiency: French, English, Portuguese, German, Spanish, Italian
Oral proficiency: Russian, Farsi, modern Greek.
Conversational proficiency: Standard Arabic, Spanish Sign Language (ESL)