Dr Amak Mahmoodian

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Senior Lecturer in Photography

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Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education (ACE)

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Qualifications:PhD, MA, BA (Hons)
Position:Senior Lecturer in Photography
Department:Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education (ACE)
Telephone:+441179656261
Email:Amak.Mahmoodian@uwe.ac.uk

About me

Dr Amak Mahmoodian

My academic roles are;

- MA Photography

- BA (Hons) Photography

- PhD, supervisor and examiner

- Coordinator - Photography Reserch Group

Amak Mahmoodian (b.1980, Shiraz, Iran) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator.

She began her career as a research-based photographer in Iran in 2003 at the Art University of Tehran. Since 2007, she has been living in the UK, in 2015, she completed a practice-based PhD in photography at the University of South Wales.

Amak practices as a visual artist at the intersection of conceptual image-making and documentary photography, working with photographs, text, video, drawing, archives and sound. Her practice explores the presentation of gender, identity and displacement, bridging a space between personal and political across platforms and formats including installation, books and films.

Mahmoodian’s work has been shown internationally, including the Carnegie Museum of Art. Pittsburgh; Fototeca Latinoamericana, Buenos Aires; the Benaki Museum, Athens; Arnolfini, Bristol; Rencontres d’Arles, Arles; and Peckham 24, London. Her works are held in collections such as the Tate, and the British Library in London. She has published two books, Shenasnameh (RRB- ICV Lab, 2016), and Zanjir (RRB, 2019) which was the winner of The Best Photo Text Book award at Rencontres Arles, 2020. Her work appears in key titles on photography such as Photography – A Feminist History (Tate Publishing, 2021), Photography Now: Fifty Pioneers Defining Photography for the Twenty-First Century (Octopus Publishing, 2021), and How We See: Photobooks by Women (10x10 Photobooks, 2019).

in the photographs.

Area of expertise

Research Publications

Photobooks &, Onomatopee publishing, UK, 2021

Photography - A Feminist History, Tate publishing UK, 2021

Photography Now:Fifty Pioneers Defining Photography for the Twenty - First Centuray, Octopus Publishing, UK, 2021

Photo No - Nos: Meditation of What Not to Photograph, Aperture, USA, 2021

Zanjir, RRB Photobooks, UK, 2019

How We See; Photobooks by Women, 10x10 Photobooks, USA, 2028

Shenasnameh, RRB Photobooks, 2016, UK

Awards

_The Outstanding Teaching Award, Student Experience Award 2022, UWE

-D6 Culture, Artists in Transit, Artist Residency, New castle , UK, 2022

-Winner of the best photo/text book 2020, Rencontres Arles, France, 2020

-Selected by Humble Arts Foundation, the Best Socially Concerned Photobooks of 2017

-Winner of the Flip Photobook Award, Russia, 2016

-Selected as the Favourite Photobook on Metalist of 2016

-Selected by Time Magazine, the Best Photobooks of The year,2017

-Winner of the 14th Reminders Photography Stronghold, Japan,2017

-Shenasnameh, Special Mention at Maribor Photobook Award, Slovenia,2017

-Shortlisted of the International Photocontest Direct Look,2016

-Finalist Best British Book Design and Production of the year,2016

-Shortlisted Best Arthur Book 2016, Rencontres Arles,2016

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