Babak Salari

Babak Salari (born March 21, 1959 in Shiraz) is Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer, based in Montreal, educated at Concordia University and Dawson College and specialized in black and white documentary photography.

His interest in photography began as a teenager in his native Iran where he contributed to various publications.^[1] Salari has been documenting the life of common people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Jordan, Iraq, Kurdistan, Palestine, Israel, Mexico, Cuba, Bulgaria. He has received many awards, including a Gold Addy from the American Ad Federation in 2004 for his work Locating Afghanistan.

Publications

Four of his projects has been published by publishing house Janet 45:

• Traumas and Miracles: Portraits of Northwestern Bulgaria(2010, in collaboration with Diana Ivanova)
• My Street: Cuban Stories (2010, in collaboration with Diana Ivanova)
• Remembering the People of Afghanistan (2009)
• Faces, Bodies, Personas: Tracing Cuban Stories (2008).

References

1. My Street l Cuban Stories, p. 145

External links

• Salari's webpage
• Salari's books
• My Street project page
• New bent on the Cuban revolution, an interview in Hour magazine
• Glimpses of queer Cuba, review in Montreal Mirror
• A conversation with Babak Salari in Slightly Lucid, a visual arts and photography blog
• The Traumas & the Miracles of Babak Salari - videointerview before the opening of Salari's exhibition "Traumas and Miracles: The Portraits of Northwestern Bulgaria", October 13-25th, 2011
• In black and white, interview for the Bulgarian magazine Programata