February 5, 2010

Bahman Jalali: 1944-2010 - Iranian Photographer

Iranian Photographer and Artist Bahman Jalali: 1944-2010: "
Payvand Iran News 

Iranian Photographer and Artist Bahman Jalali: 1944-2010



By Syma Sayyah, Tehran




Bahman Jalali

Ustad
Bahman Jalali was an internationally acclaimed
photographer and renowned artist. He had a gentle manner that touched all of
those that came to know him, he was good hearted, observant, a private and
simple man, but an expert in his field.





He was liked  and respected as a teacher and photographer by his colleagues, contemporaries
and by his many students and without a doubt has influenced many young
photographers deeply. He was known as a war photographer and covered the
Iranian Revolution, and published two books Khorramshahr and Days of Blood, Days
of Fire. He was also involved in making documentaries but he is mostly known
for the time and devotion that he bestowed on his students and as a real good
ustad (teacher)
to photographers, photojournalists and his students at the
universities that he has taught for many years. He was easily the most popular
professor as many students desperately wished to have him as their tutor.



He had collected a large collection of glass negatives from Golestan Palace, and
published these in a very interesting book of his, 'Visible Treasure'. He was
curator of Iran's first photography museum and he exhibited internationally -
currently he was participating in an

exhibition
in Milwaukee. In 2007 he was honoured by the Fundacio
AntoniTapies in Barcelona by a retrospective exhibition.


I worked with Bahman Jalali during the three years of the Kaveh Golestan Photojournalism
Awards for which he was head of the jury as well as a member of the steering
committee. I came to know his gentle yet interesting sense of humour during our
many committee meetings and later during less formal dinners and time we all
spent together along with our mutual good friend Mrs Golestan. I always found
him calm and serene - he spoke his mind, never insisted but let the logic of his
point reveal itself.




Bahman Jalali and Rana Javadi

With his wife, my good friend the photographer Rana Javadi, he lived in a beautiful house
in the centre of Tehran where we all went to pay our respects this afternoon.
From what I saw today, the pain and sorrow of his students was overwhelming, one
of them said to Rana, "I do not know if we are to express our condolences to you
or you to us" - this made everybody there watery eyed as this young man let out
his emotion and cried his heart out along with all of us present.



Bahman had arrived back in Iran from Germany late last night, saying that he wanted to be
under his own lahaf (blanket). On Friday morning he did not feel
well and so they went to the Tehran Clinic, where everything seemed under
control until suddenly at about 3 in the afternoon, he kissed his wife's hand
and smiled and thanked her and a few minutes later left this world for the next,
as calmly and quietly as he was famous for.




He will never be forgotten by all those who loved and respected him and I am sure that
he will be looking after loved ones and his students from high above.



His funeral will take place on Sunday morning, 17th January, commencing at
Artists Forum and he will be buried in the Artists plot at Beheshte Zahra.


Please join me sending his soul a prayer and we hope that his loved ones and Iranian
photography will be able to bear this loss. We are all surrounded by our
memories of him.


May he
rest in peace.



























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