Ryan Jafari
Art Director, Photographer
Official Member of Iranian Graphic Designers Society
Member of the Iranian Association of Photographers
The Official Member of Focus Photo Club (Member of The International Federation of Photographic Art)
When I was a child, I had a particular interest in the shape and color of the things around me. Regardless of the nature of every object, I liked to look at everything as my mind visualized it. So, my childhood world was somewhat different from that of most children, they saw the world as they had been taught, but my mind pushed me to look at the world in another way, as a result I was always visualizing things in my mind. To be honest, learning the letters of the alphabet was completely different for me, I was so engrossed in their forms that when I wanted to write them it took me a long time that I always got low scores on dictation at school. Being artistically gifted, I always outperformed my classmates in lessons which required more creativity like painting, and having been encouraged by my family and friends, I did my best to create better works. Besides, I attended a lot of painting classes, and it didn’t take me long to be able to convert my mental visualizations into reality and it is a great feeling to be able to transfer your feeling about your peripheral environment to anyone else and allow them to see the world through your eyes.
As Picasso says: “The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web”.
All these feelings and conditions led me to pursue art at the university. Having prominent professors in the fields of graphics and photography, working in related areas in Iran and abroad, as well as attending workshops and several courses in these areas, I have created a lot of artistic works, some of which you can see on this site.