Works
Overview
Never Ending Chaos 1, 2013
"Limitations can make boundaries for one's work, which can affect the outcome of the work, but eventually no one can close their eyes." - Rana Javadi
Born in Iran, Rana Javadi is a self-taught photographer. She has been Director of Photo and Pictorial Studies at the Cultural Research Bureau in Tehran, Iran, since 1989. The Cultural Research Bureau is a non-profit research, consulting, and publishing organization. From 1997 to 1999, she served as director and founding member of Akskhaneh Shahr, Iran’s first museum devoted exclusively to photography; since 1999, Javadi has been director and founding member of the editorial board of Aksnameh, a quarterly journal of photography.
Biography
Never Ending Chaos 1, 2013
"I have to give them a new voice. I take an old picture and add something to it to make a new image out of it, to make it mine, because that picture is not mine. In order to make it mine, I have to add something to it. Sometimes I add different objects or texts, which tell a new story." - Rana Javadi
Javadi has participated in both national and international exhibitions in Tehran,Paris, Boston, Athens, Rio de Janeiro, London, Dubai, and Berlin.